Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data
The authors collected data for an application that scrapes websites and that lets readers search company payments to doctors. In this article and 'guide to guides', they describe how they did it. They claim that most of the techniques are within the ability of the moderately experienced programmer and may be helpful to journalists who are trying to learn programming and already know the basics. It may also be relevant for experienced programmers and complete novices who plan to learn how to code.
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Authors: Dan Nguyen
Publication year:
2010
Language: English (EN)
Level of knowledge: Introductory: aware of
Usage rights: Public Domain - CC0
Topics
Audience
Librarians and Repository managers
PHD Students
Researchers and Students
Research Administration
Text and Data miners
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