JOUR 625 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Data Scraping, Data.Gov.Uk, Data.Gov
7 Jun 2020
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Data scraping is taking raw data from open sources such as government agency websites, but it could also be other information. You could also get raw data from information of freedom act. The key to this is the data you"re getting is raw data. It also deals with searching for specific information, cleaning that information, and then you"ll report the results to viewers and readers. When you want to gather data you can do many things like: You can also search for terms and specific types of data, such as pdfs, spreadsheets, geodata, etc: however, pdfs aren"t that easy to search because of the way they are coded. You can also look for url names. When doing this, consider terms like database or. You can look through data portals, such as data. gov and data. gov. uk for information on things in the uk. You can look through forums in getthedata. org or quora. com.
