Scraping and Data Mining for Beginners and Pros

September 23, 2014

Learn everything you need to know about converting web sites into data

This free online course covers data mining approaches for journalists, growth hackers, data scientists and anyone who’s fascinated about seeing the big picture. It covers how data is represented, navigated and accessed.

Presented are Visual tools and Programmatic tools that you can get started with, making the course accessible for both beginners and more experienced developers.

Course Content

1: Introduction

2: Import IO Introduction

3: [DEMO] Import IO

4: First Programmatic Scrape

5: [DEMO] Your first code scrape

6: First Programmatic Scrape Summary

7: Extracting Multiple Elements

8: [DEMO] Extracting a Single Page

9: Extract Multiple Elements Summary

10: Extracting LinkedIn URLs from Google

11: [DEMO] Extracting elements from multiple pages

12: Extracting different types of elements from a single page

13: [DEMO] Scraping a list of elements

14: Course Summary

Main Course Features

Lectures: 13
Video: 1 Hour
Skill level: Beginner

Instructor: Ala Shiban

Price: Free

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