Textual Data Encoding

Social media platforms generate vast amounts of textual data in the form of comments, posts, and conversations. This data is typically encoded as strings, which are sequences of characters represented by code points. To process and analyze this data effectively, it must be converted into a suitable format. Python uses UTF-8 encoding by default, which is capable of handling all types of characters.

When dealing with social media data, it is essential to normalize and clean the data by removing whitespaces, punctuation, HTML tags, URLs, and standardizing word forms.


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