The Twitter CPL Experiment

I have always been fascinated with being able to harness "realtime data" to make very powerful and vivid web applications. Having learned a bit of NodeJS and Socket.IO I wanted to try my hand at it. Right now the Caribbean Premiere League 2016 T20 is going on and there is a lot of buzz about it. I noted a lot of social media trending topics about it and wanted to see what I can do with that. 

Well it isn't much right now but I managed to put together this quick and dirty yet pretty decent web/ mobile app using AngularJS + NodeJS that tracks the number of tweets for each team, for each match as it happens live. It also gets some ball by ball commentary in between just to liven things up. All of this in realtime and updated periodically using Socket.IO. There is no database at the moment so everything is being consumed and compiled from various external resources. Thus, there is no historical or archival data being kept. Everything on the fly, realtime for as long as it happens and is available.

It probably still has some bugs and there is a lot more to be done. But for now just a cool way to experiment with what I know and love.

So check it out using the latest desktop or mobile browser! The next match is July 7th, 2016! http://goo.gl/J4eaAa