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Vincent Lee
Vincent Lee
13,156 Points
Posted by Vincent Lee
Vincent Lee
13,156 Points

Language for an analytics web app?

So I'm looking at building a little web app for personal use that imports my data using the APIs of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc. to create some sort of combined dashboard that displays the statistics of my social accounts. It will allowed me to interact and toggle on/off data sources to find trends and patterns etc.

My first thought was PHP with a MySQL database, I've dabbled in it a little bit but if something like Ruby would be more suitable, I'd want to go with that instead. Any thoughts on the best way to start building this?

2 Answers

mikescs
mikescs
5,018 Points
mikescs
mikescs
5,018 Points

Use the language which you are most familiar with. You are not concerned about speed here (as in a battle ruby vs php it would not make sense anyway) so go with the one you like more.

Vincent Lee
Vincent Lee
13,156 Points
Vincent Lee
Vincent Lee
13,156 Points

Thanks for your reply Mike. I was looking to see how others would approach a little project like this. I'm pretty unfamiliar with anything dynamic and database related, so pretty much at square one all things considered.