Scraping and Data Mining for Beginners and Pros
Data mining visually or programmatically, learn everything you need in a fast pace 30 minute course
Description
For Busy People Only!
Web scraping is a technique for gathering data or information on web pages. You could revisit your favorite web site every time it updates for new information, or you could write a web scraper to have it do it for you!
Web crawling is usually the very first step of data research. Whether you are looking to obtain data from a website, track changes on the internet, or use a website API, web crawlers are a great way to get the data you need.
Learn everything you need to know about converting web sit es into data. We'll focus on the 20% that gets the 80% job done.
We'll cover data mining approaches for journalists, growth hackers, data scientists and anyone who's fascinated about seeing the big picture.
Presented are Visual tools and Programmatic tools that you can get started with, making the course accessible for both beginners and more experienced developers.
We'll show you how data is represented, navigated and accessed. We'll briefly talk about other mechanisms like API stores, data stores and official APIs and their pros/cons.
If you're busy, and want to learn how to unlock the power of data in 30 minutes, check this course out.
What You Will Learn!
- Learn about data mining and scraping
- Look at alternative approaches
- Gain hands-on experience on how to do it
Who Should Attend!
- People interested in Data