Activists Assemble is an app that helps you locate a protest near you.

Inspiration

We were inspired by the recent political protests across the United States. We wanted to make an app that could help the user easily locate a protest near them.

What it does

Activists Assemble locates a protest, detects whether it is safe, sends you directions to its location, and has live Twitter updates of the event.

How we built it

We used the IBM Bluemix API to get info from tweets including the hashtags, geolocation, and whether the tweet was positive or negative (we used this information to detect whether the protest was safe or violent). We then created a clustering algorithm to group tweets based on location, and found where the user was located, and found the nearest protest near him or her. We send this information to the app, where the user can see all this information in a friendly user interface.