Goomedic.com Biomedical Informatics – News , Articles by geeks

Introduction :

Swine Flu Twitter Monitor is intended to provide the latest tweets about Swine flu and H1N1 in real-time .

Background :

Twitter is the major data source of the real-time news , updates , resources and mirco-blogging platform , its the fastest updatable , the most growing and the most usable micro-blogging platform . its easy providing a very powerful and simple API which is very useful to interact with the real-time twitter data stream .

There are many of twitter monitors which monitor twitter trends , and some of them utilizes the tools in mash-up projects like using google maps , or yahoo pipes . So this idea came along to specify the monitoring for Swine Flu trends .

The goal :

Using twitter as a data source for reading the swine flu and H1N1 trends , which hopefully will give an impression , updates , news , notifications and latest swine flu hits .

Features :

1. What the people are saying ( tweeting ) in the real-time ,
2. Tracking updates from the famous Channels as CDC , WHO , who provides updates about the Swine flu .
3. Monitoring the Swine flu activities regarding tweets from several countries ( Using the search functionality : H1N1 UK or Swineflu China )
4. Automatic Ajax update , no need to refresh the page to get the latest tweets .
5. Highlight the HashWords : #Swineflu , #H1N1 .

ToDo :

1. Localization of the result regarding to Languages ( Spanish  , Brazilian , Arabic , German )
2. Geo marking the latest tweets using Google maps .
3. Providing fast access links for the tweets regarding to languages and countries .
4. Building a daily activity chart for Swine Flu trends  ( Swine flu , H1N1 ,Flu )
5. ………… and more

Tools used :

jQuery , Juitter.com , WordPress.org ,

Hamza Emadeen Mousa