WEEK 8: Web Data
Announcements
- Project 1 due Tonight (2/26)
- Homework 4 due next Tuesday (3/5)
- Homework 5 (Search Engines) due in 2 weeks Tuesday (3/12)
I. Tuesday, February 26
Parsing HTML files: Search Engines, Wikipedia, and Beautiful Soup
Slides
Slides 14: Constructing Data from Messiness
II. Thursday, Feb 28
Working with “Live” Data Feeds and REST APIs
- Spotify
- Yelp
Slides
III. Tutorial
Practice writing a web crawler Practice with databases
Readings and Resources
- Beautiful Soup
- Wikipedia
- Working with Web Data