The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Data Scraping, Cleaning, and Visualization

If you have a model that has acceptable results but isn't amazing, take a look at your data! Taking the time to clean and preprocess your data the right way can make your model a star. In order to look at scraping and preprocessing in more detail, let's look at some of the work that went into "You Are What You Tweet: Detecting Depression in Social Media via Twitter Usage." That way, we can really examine the process of scraping Tweets and then cleaning and preprocessing them. We'll also do a little exploratory visualization, which is an awesome way to get a better sense of what your data looks like!