A quick guide to scraping tweets after recent updates to Twitter’s API — Overview Twitter has introduced changes to their API that have rendered various tweet-scraping libraries obsolete. One is GetOldTweets3, which I’ve previously written about. Luckily snscrape has stood out as a library that allows one to scrape tweets without the restrictions of Tweepy. Due to the undocumented Python wrapper and misunderstandings about…

Starting side projects is hard. Knowing when to back away is even harder — Overview This isn’t going to be another article about finding your next idea or how to get started on your side projects. It’s about taking a realistic look at your projects and figuring out if they’re still worth building. Side projects are great. There are many reasons to start one. I’ve…

A look into my process for building with the MERN Stack for the first time — Overview I’m no stranger to learning and creating on the fly, in fact, I think it’s when I learn best. I decided it was time I ventured out and used a tech stack I haven’t used before. I decided to create my first web app with the MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js…

When scraping text and using simple queries isn’t enough and you want more from Tweets on Twitter — Overview Sometimes only scraping text and using simple search queries on tweets is not enough. After receiving a fair amount of inquiries about topics not fully covered in my basic Twitter scraping article, I decided it was worth writing a follow-up article that explains the many attributes and methods offered with…

Put your tools away, they’re not all that’s important when starting a career in technology — Overview Breaking into technology can be daunting at first, and it’s hard to figure out where to start because of how broad the field is. This is further exacerbated by technology articles directing newcomers towards specific tools. While they’re still great resources they aren’t the only thing that is important. Knowing…

A quick introduction to scraping tweets from Twitter using Python — This article is heavily outdated, I’ve created an updated version of this article here: https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-scrape-tweets-from-twitter-141ed19abb10 Overview Social media can be a gold mine of data in regards to consumer sentiment. Platforms such as Twitter lend themselves to holding useful information since users may post unfiltered opinions that are able to be retrieved with ease. …

Using XGB Classifier and Random Forest Classifier to predict based on a customer’s behavior, if they will make a purchase from a website. — Overview This article discusses our analysis of customer behavior data provided for an E-commerce site. We begin by discussing our motivations for this project. We will then discuss the data set and its features. Then our initial data exploration and feature engineering. Finally we will describe the models we used to…