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 # HinduTamil News Articles Dataset
 
-## Overview
+# Overview
 This dataset contains news articles in Tamil language scraped from the Hindu Tamil news website. Each article includes its title, author, city, published date, and text.
 
-## Motivation
+# Motivation
 This dataset was created to provide a comprehensive collection of Tamil news articles for research and analysis purposes.
 
-## Data Sources and collection method
+# Data Sources and collection method
 The data in this dataset was collected from the Hindu Tamil news website (https://www.hindutamil.in/news/tamilnadu/).
 Data was collected from the website using web scraping techniques.
 
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 - Handling Errors and Timeouts: Error and timeout handling was implemented using try-except blocks to ensure smooth operation during the scraping process.
 
-## Data Cleaning and Preprocessing
+# Data Cleaning and Preprocessing
 
-Duplicate entries were removed based on the published date.
-NaN values were handled by removing rows containing NaN values.
-Irrelevant information such as author's comments, footer text, and advertisements were filtered out from the article text.
-Published dates were extracted from the article content and formatted into a standardized date-time format.
+The dataset collected from the Hindu Tamil news website underwent several cleaning and preprocessing steps to ensure it was suitable for analysis and modeling. The steps employed include:
 
-## Process for Converting Unstructured Data to Structured Format
+## Removing Duplicate Entries
+- Duplicate entries were identified based on the 'Published' column, as articles with the same published date and time were considered duplicates.
+- Duplicate rows were removed using the drop_duplicates() method from the pandas library, ensuring only unique articles remained.
+
+## Handling NaN Values
+- NaN values were handled by removing rows containing NaN values depending on the context. For instance, rows with NaN values in the 'City' or 'Author' column were dropped.
+- Rows with missing data in essential columns were excluded from the final dataset.
+
+## Filtering Out Irrelevant Information
+- Irrelevant information such as author's comments, footer text, and advertisements were filtered out from the article text.
+- Only the main content of the news article was retained.
+
+## Formatting Published Dates
+- Published dates were extracted from the article content and formatted into a standardized date-time format to ensure consistency.
+
+# Process for Converting Unstructured Data to Structured Format
 
 Unstructured data from the HTML content of the website was converted to structured format using BeautifulSoup.
 Relevant information such as title, author, city, published date, and text were extracted from the HTML tags and organized into a tabular format.
 
-## Dataset Structure
+# Dataset Structure
 The dataset has the following structure:
 - Title: Title of the news article
 - Author: Author of the news article
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 - Published: Published date and time of the news article
 - Text: Main content of the news article
 
-## Sample entries
+# Sample entries
 
 
 | Title | Author | City | Published | Text |
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 | தமிழ்நாடு காங்கிரஸ் கமிட்டியில்  | செய்திப்பிரிவு | சென்னை | 2024-02-26 16:52:00 | சென்னை: தமிழ்நாடு காங்கிரஸ் கமிட்டிக்கு இரண்டு துணைத்... |
 | பரந்தூர் விமான நிலைய எதிர்ப்பு போராட்டம் | இரா.ஜெயப்பிரகாஷ் | காஞ்சிபுரம் | 2024-02-26 16:30:00 | காஞ்சிபுரம்: காஞ்சிபுரம் அருகே பரந்தூர் விமான நிலையத்துக்கு எதிராக... |
 
-## Data Usage
+# Data Usage
 Users can use this dataset for text analysis, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis of Tamil news articles.
 
-## License
+# License
 
 This dataset is provided under the MIT License. 
 
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 DATASET.
 
 
-## Citation
+# Citation
 If you use this dataset, please cite it as:
 Sukhtankar, Shweta. (2024). Tamil News Articles Dataset.