MicroViz

An interactive visual system designed for domain experts to annotate suspicious clusters of escort ads

Creating a virtual environment

It is highly recommended to use a virtual environment for running this app as it helps dealing with dependencies of packages.

If you don't have virtualenv installed, run

pip install virtualenv

After installing virtualenv, create a virtual env for the app by running

python -m venv microviz_env

After creating a virtual env, activate it by running

source microviz_env/bin/activate

Once the virtual env has been activated, the necessary packages can be installed within that environment.

When you're done using the app, the virtual env can be deactivated by running

deactivate

Install necessary libraries:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage:

All the required data files are included

Micro-cluster visualization

python app.py