Introduction to Python and Web Scraping

October 5, 2018 3:30PM E53-482, Millikan Room

Introduction to Python and Web Scraping
Instructor: Andrew Halterman

This workshop provides a basic introduction to Python, with a focus on scraping text from the web. We'll cover some basic operations in Python and how Python differs from R. We'll then focus on web scraping, learning the libraries and a basic recipe that will cover most of the text scraping tasks you'll encounter and apply these skills to write a scraper to download and structure reports from ReliefWeb. No prior Python experience is expected. Instructions on installing Anaconda Python will be sent out before the workshop and participants should arrive with it installed.

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