Overview of the Data Analysis Workflow
The general process for data analysis typically follows these five steps:
- Data Collection
- Data Analysis using tools
- Visualization
- Modeling
- Interpretation of results
Common methods for data collection, ordered from simplest to most complex, include: API $\rightarrow$ Browser Developer Tools (XHR/Fetch) $\rightarrow$ BeautifulSoup (HTML CSS/Tag parsing) $\rightarrow$ Selenium (HTML parsing and interaction).