--Originally published at TC3045 – Sagnelli's blog

Hey! Good to see you again.

This week I added environment variables for the connection information on the database. Also I changed some classes names, and improved the code for better understanding. Connection to the database is working, as well as insertion. However, we still have problems with encoding the text to UTF-8, and avoiding weird characters. EMOJIS are a big problem because, whenever a user has an EMOJI in his user name, or in his tweet, the program halts.

We are still figuring a way to store the text with the emojis for further sentiment analysis. I know it should be possible.

Stay tuned.