Facebook Data Analyzer

What kind of information about our Facebook activity can we find from Facebook data? Facebook data analyzer offers a quick example analysis of facebook data. The project was created in a 3 people team during the AUHack 2018 - Aarhus University largest hackaton.

Used technologies

1. Javascript
2. React.js
3. Node.js
4. Heroku

Github repository

Link to the running application

Inspiration

Learning that we have easy access to our Facebook data archive, we decided to play with it, and see what kind of information can we derive from it. The project had an additional goal to practice development of web applications with React.js framework.

What it does?

There are a few quick steps user needs to take to use the tool.
1. Download your Facebook data from Facebook: go to settings, then you will see "Download a copy of your Facebook data". Then within in a few minutes (longer if you are a heavy Facebook user), you will receive your Facebook data via email.
2. Once you have received the zip file of your data via email, unzip it, and remove every file that is not an html.
3. Zip the remaining files, and now you are ready to upload for data analysis!
4. Upload the data by either dragging and dropping your zipfile or by selecting from the window.
5. View your analysis results.

How have we built it?

The projects consisted of two components:

1. React.js web app - Repository
2. Node.js server - for processing the data - Repository