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Scraping data
From the course: Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals
Scraping data
- [Tutor] Watts Towers in Los Angeles is a collection of sculptures and structures by Simon Rodia that are nearly a hundred feet tall and made from things that he found around him. Scrap pieces of rebar, pieces of porcelain tile, glass, bottles, seashells, mirrors, broken pottery, and so on. But the towers are a testament to what a creative and persistent person can do with the things that they find all around them. Data scraping is in a sense the found art of data science. It's when you take the data that's around you, tables on pages, and graphs in newspapers and integrate that information into your data science work. Unlike the data that's available with APIs or application programming interfaces, which is specifically designed for sharing, data scraping is for data that isn't necessarily created with that integration in mind. But I need to immediately make a quick statement about ethics and data science. Even though it's…
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Data preparation5m 26s
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Labeling data8m 48s
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In-house data5m 38s
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Open data4m 15s
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APIs2m 40s
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Scraping data4m 44s
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Creating data5m 36s
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Passive collection of training data3m 57s
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Self-generated data3m 30s
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Data vendors5m 30s
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Data ethics5m 14s
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