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Course: Tools for Strengthening Your Data Literacy
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Web Scraping and Data Cleaning for Non-programmer

  1. What is web scraping? How does it work?
  2. Demonstration of other data sourcing techniques.
  3. Scraping web data with ParseHub.
  4. Beyond scraping: Legal & ethical considerations.
  5. Data cleaning and data transformation with OpenRefine.

Self-study Videos

  1. Data Sources of Big data (3:21 min) Required
  2. What is Web Scraping and What is it Used For? (3:39 min) Required
  3. ParseHub Tutorial: Tables (7:44 min) Required
  4. How to Scrape Multiple Pages on a Website – Web Scraper Pagination (3:27 min) Required
  5. Introduction to OpenRefine – Skillshare (27:32 min) Required
  6. OpenRefine Data Cleaning Tutorial (12:15 min) Required
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