Python Webscraping For Information Retrieval and Analytics

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

What you'll 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 © 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

Description

ENROLL IN MY LATEST COURSE ON HOW TO LEARN ALL ABOUT PYTHON WEB SCRAPING FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL & ANALYTICS

Do you want to harness the power of the internet to inform your data-driven strategies?
Are you looking to gain an edge in the fields of retail, online selling, real estate and geolocation services?
Do you want to turn unstructured data from articles and web pages into real insights?
Do you want to develop cutting edge analytics and visualisations to take advantage of the World Wide Web?

Gaining proficiency in webscraping (and associated analytics) can help you harness the power of the freely available data and information on the world wide web and turn it into actionable insights

MY COURSE IS A HANDS-ON TRAINING WITH REAL WEBSCRAPING EXAMPLES- You will learn to use an important Python webscraping library BeautifulSoup and derive information and insights from different webpages

My course provides a foundation to carry out PRACTICAL, real-life webscraping. By taking this course, you are taking an important step forward in your data science journey to become an expert in harnessing the power of the world wide web for deriving insights.

Why Should You Take My Course?

I have an MPhil (Geography and Environment) from the University of Oxford, UK. I also completed a data science intense PhD at Cambridge University (Tropical Ecology and Conservation).

I have several years of experience in analyzing real-life data from different sources and producing publications for international peer-reviewed journals.

This course will help you gain fluency both in BeautifulSoup (for webscraping), web-data processing and analytics using a powerful clouded based python environment called GoogleColab. Specifically, you will

Gain proficiency in setting up and using Google CoLab for Python Data Science tasks
Carry out common webscraping tasks on Wikepedia pages and extract relevant information
Work with complicated web pages and extract information
Process the extracted information in a usable form
Carry out basic geocoding
Carry out common analytics and visualization tasks

You will work on practical mini case studies relating to (a) geocoding London boroughs (b) quantifying the variation in Mumbai property prices © extracting financial statements among others

Who this course is for:

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