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Saturday, October 10 • 16:00 - 17:00
Data Track: Python for Scraping 4

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An introduction to webscraping with Python: This two-part, hands-on workshop will teach basic newsroom programming concepts using the Python language. We'll cover how to deconstruct a common reporting task -- gathering a table of data from a public website -- and assemble a solution from useful Python libraries that you can use again and again.

Prerequisites: Attendees should be familiar with HTML and the command line and be comfortable with databases and SQL. If you've ever written a string function in Excel ("=left(A2,5)"), you'll be fine.

Python has to be installed at your laptop before the training. Somebody can help you at the “Data Pub” on Thursday.

 

Speakers
avatar for Adriana Homolová

Adriana Homolová

Proud coordinator of the data skills training 📊, ARENA, Follow The Money, Lost in Europe
Adriana is a freelance data journalist, trainer and public spending nerd. At Dataharvest, she coordinates the data skills training. At other times, she writes scrapers and investigates European Union for Follow The Money's Bureau Brussel and collects data on missing children in migration... Read More →
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Tom Meagher

Deputy Managing Editor, The Marshall Project
Tom Meagher is the deputy managing editor of the Marshall Project, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization covering crime and justice in America. A veteran reporter and editor, he previously led an interactive team for the Digital First Media newspaper chain and was the data editor... Read More →

Saturday October 10, 2015 16:00 - 17:00 CEST
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