Event details
Feb
16
Web Scraping and APIs with Python
As one of the most popular, versatile, and beginner-friendly programming languages, Python can be used for a variety of tasks from analyzing data to building websites.
This workshop explores how to extract information from the web using web scraping and APIs. Participants will practice scraping federal legislation data, relating to the recent anti-trans bills being written in Congress. No prior experience with programming is expected, though a laptop with internet connection and a Google Drive account is required.
This session is the second in a five-part series that builds basic skills in Python programming toward working with text-based data in PUL's collections. Other workshops in the series include "Introduction to Python for working with Text" (February 8), Python for Text Cleaning (March 6), "Python for Text Analysis" (April 4), and "Python for Machine Learning: Text Generation" (April 25). Materials from all workshops will be made available for those who cannot attend.
This workshop is being offered as part of Princeton University Library's participation in International Love Data Week 2024.
This workshop explores how to extract information from the web using web scraping and APIs. Participants will practice scraping federal legislation data, relating to the recent anti-trans bills being written in Congress. No prior experience with programming is expected, though a laptop with internet connection and a Google Drive account is required.
This session is the second in a five-part series that builds basic skills in Python programming toward working with text-based data in PUL's collections. Other workshops in the series include "Introduction to Python for working with Text" (February 8), Python for Text Cleaning (March 6), "Python for Text Analysis" (April 4), and "Python for Machine Learning: Text Generation" (April 25). Materials from all workshops will be made available for those who cannot attend.
This workshop is being offered as part of Princeton University Library's participation in International Love Data Week 2024.
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