Description

Get started with your journey to learn how to explore the "insides" of websites and extract information from them. A lot of tech companies rely on Web scraping to fill their databases with publicly accessible information: price comparators, travel aggregators. Scraping is widely used in marketing for market research or customer feedback analysis. Data scientists and business intelligence specialists will use scraping to build datasets and crunch numbers. 

No prior knowledge of web scraping needed, attend to know the basics of web scraping. In this webinar, we use Python AutoScraper library, and an interactive Jupyter notebook to show you the basics of web scraping in a step-by-step tutorial and how can you, as a developer, leverage it.

Learning outcomes:

• Learners will learn about web scraping

• Learners will learn the uses of web scraping

• Learners will learn how to collect data using web scraping

• Learners will learn how Auto Scraper works

• Learners will learn how Autoscraper makes life easier for developers to scrape data

Speaker:

Sambit Mohanty, Core Team Member @ HackForChange (HFC)

Sambit is a senior engineering fellow at HackForChange, leading the complete platform development at HackForChange, using Python and Django.

Agenda

Webinar is scheduled for 1 hour from 2:00 PM to 3:00PM on Saturday, Nov 20th. 

2:00 PM - 2:10 PM What is HackForChange

2:10 PM - 2:50 PM Webinar

2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Q & A