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Show HN: Live map of most mentioned Ukrainian cities on Telegram in the past 24h (intelligram.live)
1 point by ailef on May 19, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
This is part of a broader tool which allows to analyze discourse on Telegram channels related to the Russo-Ukrainian war.

The map is based on the messages of the past 24 hours, which usually amounts to around 8-10k messages. These come from a list of around 200 Telegram channels in English, Ukrainian and Russian.

Click on a city to see the actual content. Keep in mind there's a margin of error due to the ambiguity between names: I'm working on it at the moment to minimize these kind of errors.

Any feedback is appreciated!



What powers the site?


It's a Java backend using Spring Boot, and all the data is stored into Elasticsearch. And then there's just a small Python script that collects the data from the Telegram APIs (couldn't manage to do it with Java).


The front end is nice. Is that all written by you?


Thanks! Yes, it's all done by me, I took inspiration from some "dashboard" layouts I found online and made a couple of twists.




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