README.md

The #taboolachallenge

Welcome to the Taboola TelAviv 2015 challenge.

The Challenge

The challenge is to create a real time data visualisation worthy of the big screen at Taboola's enterance across all offices worldwide.

The winning team members will be offered a summer internship at Taboola.

What You Get:

Data

• We've prepared a server that reports clicks done in the Taboola network over the last minute. The click data is returned in JSON format fron this the following URL http://52.11.153.209:8080/stats/clicks
• New data is generated every minute, so calling the URL again will return the same data.
• Data format example:

{
    generated: 1436868484956, //last updated [epoch time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time), this will change once a minute.
    data : [
        {
            sourcePublisher: "tehrantimes", //publisher from which the click originated from
            eventTime: 1436867819000, //event [epoch time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time)
            targetItemId: -992066647354435200,  //id of the clicked item.
            targetPublisher: "mossad-il", //publisher which is the target of the click (the advertizer)
            title: "The Mossad wants you!", //the title of the clicked url.
            thumbnailUrl: "http://cdn.timesofisrael.com/uploads/2012/11/Mossad_seal.png",//the url of the target page thumbnail
            url: "http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-mossad-wants-you/",  //a url to the clicked page
            countryName: "Iran, Islamic Republic of",
            countryCode: "IR",
            region: "17",
            city: "Tehran",
            latitude: 35.72928,
            longitude: 50.98589
        },
        {
            sourcePublisher: "usatoday",
            //...

epoch time

• The server supports an optional after parameter, which when called with an epoch time, will only return results generated since that time, so if you add the value from the generated field to the URL, you will only get new data from after it was generated (otherwise you get an empty list of clicks instead [] ) example: http://52.11.153.209:8080/stats/clicks?after=1436871060323 vs http://52.11.153.209:8080/stats/clicks?after=1536871060323

Project Template

Go ahead and clone this repo, then open index.html in your browser.

The Rules

1. You have 24 hours
2. Teams of up to 4 need to sign up by 12:00 with Lichen
3. Each team will present ther work tomorrow at 10:00AM sharp!
4. Projects will be judged based on: Correctness, Coherence, User Experience, and Cool Factor.
5. Technical stuff: Please wear a name badge while in the office, No smoking in the balcony (you can go on the roof), Please keep the noise level reasonable.