Mining Social Media

The author has written some of the most interesting and thoughtful essays about analyzing her digital life, such as her texts and PDFs of her bank statements after her divorce:

https://medium.com/@lamthuyvo/you-and-me-as-data-points-958e...

https://quantifiedbreakup.tumblr.com/post/71758742836/with-a...

Her work in data journalism (full disclosure: I haven't worked with her but invited her to speak to my class once) is also great: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lamvo/gentrification-co...

This looks great! I'm looking forward to going through it to look for next steps for some Twitter scraping I've been doing.

If the author happens to see this, one tiny feedback: it would be very helpful to add the chapter titles to the sidebar links for easier reference.

This is a fantastic, free resource. Excellent intro for those unfamiliar with basic HTML or Python, plus a quick and easy route to building something that works.

It helps that the entire thing is really well written. I'm surprised this is free!