Introduction
I was searching for a (comparatively) simple use case of Apache Spark and finally found an interesting scenario. The plan is to analyze Tweets related to the US elections 2016 in real time to provide live feedback during the TV debates.For this purpose we are going to set up an Elasticsearch server and feed it with tweets using Apache Spark. In the process we will perform sentiment and location analyzation. Finally we will build some dashboards in Kibana to visualize the data. As these are quite many topics we are not going to deep into each but get a working sample at the end. The result will look like the following.
