<ul><li>The writer went through past Instagram posts to find how many people liked their posts and graph the data to visualise post trends.</li><li>Benefits included spending more time looking at old likes without guilt, better problem solving and creativity, and producing a neat graph.</li><li>To retrieve the necessary data, they used Postman, a tool that makes data deliveries to your virtual mailbox, to mimic a browser request.</li><li>They then copied the Postman python request to fetch Instagram data, which added the number of likes and comments into separate lists.</li><li>To create the final graph, the writer set x values as post numbers and y values as likes and comments.</li></ul>

Graphing Likes and Comments on Instagram Posts to See the Trends Visually

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