Showing posts with label WEB SCRAPE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WEB SCRAPE. Show all posts

Friday, 28 January 2022

Web Scraping with Selenium in Python by/via @harendraverma21

Learn to identify elements to get content, take screenshots and run JavaScript.

Interesting read and a great way of screen scraping.

Friday, 2 April 2021

Automate Your Life, Using Web Scraping by Christopher Zita via @Medium

 Christopher shows you 3 unique ways you can save time, using Web Scraping.

This was interesting and a great indicator of what is possible in web scraping to achieve all sorts of things. He includes a link to his course on web scraping on Udemy. I feel some playing with some web scraping to help me to do some rather boring tasks.

Monday, 29 June 2020

Scraping Court Records Data to Find Dirty Cops by Kristin via @LawsuitDotOrg

Given recent events, it's more important than ever to root out "bad apples." This article introduces some of the issues that citizen data investigators face, available resources, and how you can help. 

This is a great us to technology and available data to do some good even if it is looking backwards - maybe it can prove as a deterrent long time as they will know that they will be caught.

Friday, 13 March 2020

The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Data Scraping, Cleaning, and Visualisation by @annebonnerdata via @TDataScience

How to take your model from unremarkable to amazing simply by cleaning and preprocessing your data.

Anne is right - if you get the underlying data right, the results and process to get to there is so much easier.  That is NOT to say you do something to skew the results, just that you make sure that it is not a case of garbage in/garbage ou.

Monday, 8 June 2015