This workshop will cover the tools, hows, and ethics of web scraping, and provide a hands-on example using XPath.

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Working with Data Series

What is web scraping? Why should you use it? Is it legal? How hard is it to learn? These questions and more will be explored (and answered) in this introductory workshop. This workshop will navigate you through some basic web scraping techniques including how to use XPath and the Chrome web browser with the Scraper extension, which allows you to extract data from the web with little technical knowledge.

Working with Data is a workshop series focusing on skills, resources, and tools that help you take care of your research data. Workshops cover a variety of data topics that can be applied during different stages of the research data lifecycle, including version control, data cleaning, visualization, metadata, data storage, sharing, and preserving.

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