wesearch.co.nz was launched back in 2010 as a personal project for learning about the web. I was really proud of the fact that I took something from imagination to execution. However, due to various constrains and other personal commitments at the time, unfortunately the site/idea didn’t receive the maintenance and improvement it deserves. Although the site initially received a fair amount of attention from the public , but there have only been around 300 listings posted to date.
I realized I never had the chance to look at the actual classified ads data stored behind the site. Up until this week, I decided learn some text mining techniques and thought it would be a great idea to extract ads data from the site and use it as sample data.
Disclaimer: This is my first attempt , so by no means I’m a text mining expert, if there are errors or better way to do things please let me know. Below is what I have done: