Introduction to Web Scraping Using Python
- Date
2018-02-23 (Creation date: 2018-02-23)
- Main contributor
Olga Scrivner
- Summary
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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.
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