Making the DumTeeDum map.

Some of the best projects come from the most unexpected places and this interactive map with social media integration and a conversational UI is one of our favourites.

I just thought I'd write a little bit about the process and what lessons we learned along the way.

First, I'll let Kristina fill in the backstory on how we came to build a world map of Archers fans...

DumTeeDum is a podcast for fans of The Archers, a few weeks ago an off the cuff remark by another DumTeeDum listener, ignited a conversation about 'where are all the listeners'. This map is the result of those conversations.

What we used:

• Python for automated processes.
• NodeJS for the web services.
• A smattering of vanilla JavaScript for the client.
• Twitter + Facebook OAUTH2 for authentication + identification.
• ElasticSearch for indexing the world.
• CouchDB for logging and NGINX for load balancing.

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