❄️ HPLT × NLPL Winter School
🗓 Day 1 — Monday, 10 Feb 2025 🌍 What Is Common Crawl? Common Crawl is a huge, free snapshot of the public web. A non‑profit updates it every month, storing: Billions of HTML pages Their cleaned‑up text content Extra metadata (links, timestamps, MIME types, …) Why It Matters Track language change – see how words, memes, and topics shift over time. Map the web’s link network – study which sites connect and why. Train big ML models – use real‑world data instead of tiny toy datasets. Because each release includes both the raw HTML and a parsed text layer, you can analyze: ...