1THE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES YOU’LL NEED TO KNOW
Whether we’re talking about a Facebook post, a tweet, or a Yelp review, we need to understand how online platforms are structured in order to extract information from them. To do that, we need to learn the basics of coding and web development.
This chapter gives you an overview of how the web works with respect to web languages and within the context of our data mining efforts. Understanding how databases and web pages interact will help us investigate what kind of social media data is available online and how we can harvest it.
So where should we start? For beginners, the coding landscape can certainly ...
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