Date:
Friday, March 23, 2018, 9:30am to 12:00pm
Location:
CGIS Knafel K018
Web scraping is a method of extracting and restructuring information from web pages. This workshop will introduce basic techniques for web scraping using the popular Python libraries BeautifulSoup and Requests. Participants will practice accessing websites, parsing information, and storing data in a CSV file. This workshop is intended for social scientists who are new to web scraping, but have some familiarity with Python or have attended the Introduction to Python workshop. Workshop Preparation Computers with Python pre-loaded are available on a first-come, first-served basis. If you with to use your own laptop, please install the Anaconda distribution of Python 3.6 from https://www.continuum.io/downloads If you are having trouble installing this version of Python, please contact data science services at help@iq.harvard.edu . This workshop is free for Harvard and MIT affiliates. Click here to sign up!