Date:
Friday, September 20, 2019, 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location:
K018, CGIS Knafel
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. 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.
Visit http://bit.ly/iqss-pyweb for details and to register (requires HarvardKey).