Date:
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Location:
Young Research Library, West Classroom
Categories:
Research Workshop
This entry-level workshop will introduce Python as a tool for digital researchers and scholars wanting to incorporate data on the web. The following Python libraries will be covered: requests, lxml, pandas, and numpy. Please note that this workshop uses Python 2.
- Understand the basics of Python 2.7
- Describe the different data types in Python
- Identify a use cases for web scraping data
- Learn how to scrape web data using the requests and lxml library
- Visualize web scraped data using the Seaborn library