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Anish Chapagain
Anish Chapagain
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Anish Chapagain

Anish Chapagain is a software engineer with a passion for data science, its processes, and Python programming, which began around 2007. He has been working with web scraping and analysis-related tasks for more than 5 years, and is currently pursuing freelance projects in the web scraping domain. Anish previously worked as a trainer, web/software developer, and as a banker, where he was exposed to data and gained further insights into topics including data analysis, visualization, data mining, information processing, and knowledge discovery. He has an MSc in computer systems from Bangor University (University of Wales), United Kingdom, and an Executive MBA from Himalayan Whitehouse International College, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Exploring secure web content

Today’s web and internet technologies are quite vulnerable in terms of web security (content, authorization, illegal access, and so on). We want the web to be safe and the content that we browse, search, or view to be genuine, not violating any legal or ethical standards or affecting people’s human rights.

The web must be accessible and available to everyone who seeks information, effectively and by following ethical practices. We often encounter web content that is not exactly what we were looking for, or hear of web content that has been tampered with or hacked into or that private and sensitive information has been leaked illegally, and so on. Although a lot of these cases are beyond our control, we can reduce vulnerabilities and make the web a much safer place to be.

In many new technologies, security-related concerns have been identified and solutions have been implemented. There are even applications and organizations concerned...

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Anish Chapagain

Anish Chapagain is a software engineer with a passion for data science, its processes, and Python programming, which began around 2007. He has been working with web scraping and analysis-related tasks for more than 5 years, and is currently pursuing freelance projects in the web scraping domain. Anish previously worked as a trainer, web/software developer, and as a banker, where he was exposed to data and gained further insights into topics including data analysis, visualization, data mining, information processing, and knowledge discovery. He has an MSc in computer systems from Bangor University (University of Wales), United Kingdom, and an Executive MBA from Himalayan Whitehouse International College, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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