[Networks of Connectivity between web pages]

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ABSTRACT

In the few years since its beginning, the WorldWideWeb (WWW) has grown dramatically in the member of users, servers, and its geographical distribution. It has arisen as sociable form that people use to create, uphold, and become part of communities. These technologies for the first time allowed people of the all categories such as economic status, ages and backgrounds to feel opened to the new modern world. It has arisen as sociable form that people use to create, uphold, and become part of communities. Indeed, the development of Internet technologies has brought convenience and benefits to the world. The proposed research will be based on mixed method approach. Mixed methods came into emergence during the 1990s as a process of combining quantitative and qualitative approaches at different stages within a single research study. Known as the third paradigm in research methodology after traditional quantitative and qualitative methods, mixed methods attempts to legitimate the use of multiple approaches in answering research questions. In this case, users were modelled as random walkers that move along the links of the WWW. The precise timing of the visit to a particular web document were ignored because such topological quantities can be expressed using diffusion time, where each time step corresponds to a single diffusion step. Python programming language will be used as a web development tools to extract data form web pages. Python is a dynamically typed language with a rich set of native types. Its number hierarchy includes native arbitrary-length integers, hardware-precision floating-point and complex numbers, and library support for rational numbers and arbitrary precision floating point.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT2

DECLARATION3

ABSTRACT4

Background of the Study6

Problem Statement6

Purpose of the Study7

Research Questions7

Risk & Limitation of the study7

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW9

Network Connection among Web Pages9

Related Work11

Web Data Extraction Systems12

Interaction with Web pages12

Generation of a Wrapper13

Automation and Scheduling13

Data Transformation14

Use of Extracted Data14

Applications15

Summary15

Programming with Python16

Who's Using Python?17

Python Philosophy18

Complex Programming Tasks19

Advantages of Python20

Disadvantages of Python22

Web Connectivity Analysis22

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY24

Research Design24

Overview of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Approaches25

Benefits and Disadvantages of Mixed Method27

Informed Consent28

Confidentiality28

Validity28

Overview of the Mixed Method Research Approach30

Data Collection Tool30

Data Analysis & Procedures31

Web Development Tool Used31

CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION33

Python: An Ecosystem for Scientific Computing33

Changing Landscape33

Python: A General Purpose Programming Language36

Background and Overview37

Numeric and Data40

Languages, Environments, and Distributions45

Tools45

Interactive, exploratory work45

Numerical arrays46

Data Visualization46

Algorithms47

Performance47

Symbolic manipulation48

Documentation48

Distributions49

Getting Started51

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS53

REFERENCES54

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Traditional Web search engines take a query as input and produce a set of (hopefully) relevant pages that match the query terms. While useful in many circumstances, search engines have the disadvantage that users have to formulate queries that specify their ...