Splunk for Facebook – geolocating Facebook activities
Psstt … Is geolocation ready in the latest release of the Splunk for Facebook app? Yes! To those who have been following the progress of this app and curious to know if the idea mentioned (geolocating activities in Facebook and visualizing them) in the previous post Splunk for Facebook – event updates with geolocation is implemented and how it is implemented, this is how it looks like.
Short story: Activities with geo-coordinates (latitude and longitude) will be marked on the map. Individual marker will pop up as the cursor is moved around the correlated individual result in the results section.
Long story: Quite technical but the steps will be described as terse and as simple as possible
[1] The…
Splunk for Facebook – event updates with geolocation
Hello again! What you see is a screenshot of a new feature in the Splunk for Facebook app. It is still a work in progress (many components need to be implemented – backend and frontend).
This a quick overview of the new feature added into the Splunk for Facebook app (“Activities updates in your social network”). It was mentioned briefly in the previous article “Splunk for Facebook … cont’d“ about getting better insight of the activities among your connections in your social network with Splunk. There are many parts that are pieced together to get this feature to work:
[1] Getting the data
This app utilizes the Facebook Graph API to retrieve the updates among your connections. In particular…
Splunk for Facebook … cont’d
To piggyback from the previous article, the purpose of this app is to help users make sense of the data retrieved from the Facebook Graph API. Despite the fact that we at Splunk love to sift through and look at huge amount of data, we still like to explore if we can cleanse them, in other words, massage, filter, extract important details, transform them in order to make them more meaningful and sensible.
Some interesting use cases that this app addresses:
[1] Correlating your connections
This app will ideally help the users, at a quick glance, understand how they are connected to other users within the Facebook ecosystem. We are talking about the interesting “n-th degree of separation” problem…
Splunk for Facebook
What? What? What?
A social app on Splunk platform? There’s an app for it. Download “Splunk for Facebook” now at http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/splunk+for+facebook
Documentation and tutorial underway. Stay tuned …
Splunk REST API is EASY to use
If you are feeling adventurous and have a burning desire to try out Splunk’s REST API, look no further, this article demonstrates the first
few basic steps to get you started. I am going to demonstrate how to create a search job and retrieve the search results with Splunk’s REST API using your preferred programming language (I am using Python in this article). I tested this code against Splunk 4.2.2
