Python Webscraping For Information Retrieval and Analytics

Retrieve Information from Webpages Using Python and Google CoLab for Analytics and Insights

Created by: Minerva Singh
Bestselling Instructor & Data Scientist(Cambridge Uni)

What Will I Learn?

• Be Able To Use the Python Within Google CoLab For Practical Data Science
• Webpage Basics
• Scraping Common Wikipedia Pages For Information
• Scaping Complicated Webpages For Information Using BeautifulSoup (A Common Python Library)
• Basic Geocoding
• Data Processing and Cleaning To Extract Information From The Scraped Data
• Analysing the Scraped and Cleaned Data For Actionable Insights
• Data Visualization
• Work With Practical Examples- (a) Geocoding London's Boroughs (b) Obtain Apartment Prices For Mumbai (c) Extract Amazon Reviews

Requirements

• Be Able To Operate & Install Software On A Computer
• A Gmail Account
• Prior Exposure to the Python Will be Helpful
• Prior Exposure to the Jupyter Notebook Ecosystem

Target audience

• People Wanting To Master The Python/Google Colab Environment For Data Science
• People Interested in Scraping Information Of Simple and Standard Websites
• People Interested In Learning About Scraping Relevant Information Off Complicated Websites
• People Intersted in Gaining Exposure to Basic Geocoding
• People Interested in Deriving Insights From Web Scraped Data