May the 4th Be With You – Analyzing Star Wars Twitter Mentions in Minecraft
A couple of weeks ago, as May the 4th approached, a lively Star Wars debate brewed at StreamSets:
- “Do new school characters get as much play as old favorites like Darth Vader, Yoda and Han Solo?”
- “Does the Dark Side of the Force dominate the Light?”
- “Does Yoda prevail over Darth Vader?”
It occurred to us that, with the Twitter Streaming API and StreamSets Data Collector, we didn’t have to guess or debate. We built a data flow that ingested and analyzed tweets and then displayed them in… Minecraft!