Netlytic
Netlytic is a website used as a text analyzer, which allows us to track and locate specific locations and hashtags on Instagram. By using Netlytic our team will be able to collect an archive of posts and sort them by hashtags, locations, or people tagged to identify patterns of significance amongst the data collected. Netlytic is a great tool to launch our research into the activity West Chester, Pennsylvania has on Instagram. The collection of specific locations and hashtags will lead us to the most highly populated tourism activities West Chester has to offer.
Food Recognition Technology
A major player in the activities located in West Chester, Pennsylvania are the countless options of food locations. If you take a walk or drive throughout the borough of West Chester you will see countless food locations that will interest you as a tourist. Food Recognition Technology is a program that analyzes a picture of a dish served at a restaurant and produce the estimated nutritional information and caloric content. This program will let our visitors search a popular restaurant located in West Chester they would like to attend, screenshot a image off their menu and find out exactly what they will eat. The results of the program will help our visitors locate which popular location they like best.
Story Maps
After the collection of data using the two previous tools is completed, that is where Story Maps is utilized. Story Maps will be used to visually show each popular location on our website. The tool will also put markers on each of the locations, letting our visitors have the ability to view all the details of the collected data for that specific spot. Below is an example of a map created using the tool Story Maps, the map shows many popular locations tagged letting the user know which spot is where. When the user clicks on a location, all of it’s details will appear, as ours will for the popular West Chester locations with the highest Instagram impressions. The tool will help our website visually present our collected information is the easiest way possible for our visitors to view.
