Create Web Scraping Tutorial

[ryanmswan]

Overview

Update the Web Scraping with resources and an article header.

Action Items

• Create a Google Doc in the folder provided under resources
  • Draft an introductory paragraph explaining what the tutorial resources cover and why a new data scientist would use them for working with data at Hack For LA
  • Identify resources with vetted tutorials covering important skills within the tutorial area, adding to the draft
• Review the draft with the Data Science CoP
• Add to the wiki page

Resources/Instructions

Wiki page

Web Scraping Tutorial

Location for any files you might need to upload (drafts, images, etc.)

• Folder for files related to the Web Scraping tutorial
  • DS: Web Scraping Tutorial Google Doc

Tools that are core that should be mentioned:

• Python
• Selenium
• BeautifulSoup
• Requests

Consider linking to these videos Sophia made

Examples of resources that would be useful to include:

• Web how-to/tutorial/walk-throughs
• Youtube playlists or videos demonstrating tools
• Links to blogs or platforms with subject matter experts

[akhaleghi]

Hey @henrykaplan , are you still working on this tutorial or should we put it back in the backlog to have someone else pick it up?

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Henry said at the meeting he is going to start this on 2022-05-02 with anticipated ETA of 2022-05-12

[akhaleghi]

Hey @henrykaplan is the ETA for this web scraping still today (5/12/22)?