Web scraping is the process of using code to pull data from the internet automatically. In this workshop we will learn how to programmatically pull URLs from a google search, extract the text, authors, publish date, and keywords (using Natural Language Processing) to create a graph that shows the most popular key words describing a current news topic. This same technique can be applied to resources used for Public Policy, IR, and Government research. After coming to this workshop you will be able to: Don't worry if you have no coding experience! We have a couple of intro videos (20 minutes total) that go over the basics of Python and this lesson assumes no background knowledge about coding. While no prior computer science is necessary, we have created two videos to help you get started with Kaggle and Python. They are twenty minutes in total.Event Information
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