Seminar by Chris Salahub

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)
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Please Note: This seminar will be held online.

Student seminar series

Chris Salahub
PhD student in Statistics

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Mapping My Dad's Peaks: An Introduction to Web Scraping and Regex

There is a wealth of data available online in public-facing websites without API protocols. In this talk I go through some of the basic tools you can use to access and process this data, with a focus on regular expressions and web scraping. A project I completed for my dad is used to motivate and guide the introduction of these skills.