def processData(data):
data = data.lower() #casefold
data = re.sub('<[^>]*>',' ',data) #remove any html

data = re.sub(r'#([^s]+)', r'1', data) #Replace #word with word
remove = string.punctuation
remove = remove.replace("'", "") # don't remove '
p = r"[{}]".format(remove) #create the pattern
data = re.sub(p, "", data)

data = re.sub('[s]+', ' ', data) #remove additional whitespaces

pp = re.compile(r"(.)1{1,}", re.DOTALL) #pattern for remove repetitions
data = pp.sub(r"11", data)

return data