Introduction to Web Scraping Using Python

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Date
2018-02-23 (Creation date: 2018-02-23)
Main contributor
Olga Scrivner
Summary
In this workshop, you will learn how to extract web data with Beautiful Soup, a Python library for extracting data out of HTML- and XML-structured documents. You will also learn the basics of scraping and parsing data. In this hands-on workshop, we will also be using the DataCamp platform and participants are requested to have a free account with DataCamp prior the workshop.

This workshop is open to anyone, and previous knowledge of Python is not required.
Publisher
IU Workshop in Methods
Collection
Workshop in Methods
Unit
Social Science Research Commons
Related Items
Accompanying materials on IU ScholarWorks ; Accompanying workshop ("Introduction to Python for Social Scientists")
Notes
Performers
Olga Scrivner is a Research Scientist at Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (http://cns.iu.edu/) at IU and a Corporate Faculty in Data Analytics program at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. As a CEWIT faculty fellow, she is also working on a number of workshops to expose women to technology and programming.