Final Year Project Sharing: Social Media Analyzer

Project Title: Social Media Analyzer

Categories: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Social Media, EXIF Analysis
Students: Goh Zhiyan (Team Leader), Kyaw Win Shwe, Lee Xin En and Pang Jing Hui

Synopsis: The purpose of this project is to come out with a social network analyzing application.



Aim: The application will be able to perform route tracing from a given set of photos before displaying on an interactive map where details of the photos are displayed as well as to data-mine the data from social media into insightful information for cyber investigators and the curious alike.
The main aim of the project is to give the user an edge in information analysis from the set of given existing data that they never thought of getting anything useful from. This will be done in the area of social media, more specifically Facebook and Flickr in our case.

Objectives of the Project:

• To gather and analyse information that is available on social networking sites
• To aid law enforcement or cyber/forensic investigators in their investigation
• Can also benefits any parents who want to know the places their children previously went, through photographs that are geotagged
   

Pang Jing Hui,  Kyaw Win Shwe, Lee Xin En and Goh Zhiyan (Team Leader).

 

“Starting of the Final Year Project (FYP) journey was hard. But when time goes by, I realized that working on this topic for FYP is enjoyable and I have gained a great deal of knowledge on how social media works, at the same time, how marketing can be done on social media.” said Zhiyan, student leader of the project.

Another student, Kyaw said, "It has been a tiring but a fruitful and eventful journey. I learnt the fact that when everything seems all dead and buried, hold on to the very thing called faith. Overall, I have nothing but sheer delight and immense pride for being part of the FYP team."

For Xin En, it was quite a good learning experience, he said, "Through this final year project, I have learnt a great deal of things. Many things are not taught to us but we have to learn it independently and use resources like the internet to help us."

"During my FYP I have learned a lot on java programming language as we did our project in java. I also managed to learn how to use Application Programming Interface (API) for a few social media websites. Ultimately to me, my FYP is a meaning full one as it can be used out there in the IT world to help criminal investigator to solve their cases." said Jing Hui.