Web Scraping for Journalists
In these hands-on sessions you will be introduced to some of the basic techniques to get started on scraping data for investigations:
- investigation ideas: how to spot opportunities to use scraping and automation in investigations
- scraping basics: finding structure in HTML and URLs; what’s possible with programming
- simple scraping jobs: how to write a basic scraper in five minutes
- data journalism tools: the challenges of scraping hundreds of webpages, dozens of documents, or the invisible contents of databases.
Technical Requirements
Own laptop required
Paul Bradshaw
Professor Paul Bradshaw is a data journalist and author, who leads the MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University. He publishes the Online Journalism Blog (OJB), and was the co-founder of Help Me Investigate, an investigative journalism website funded by Channel 4 and Screen WM.
- 5 July 2019 09.00–11.15
Location: Room 326 - PSH Building - Goldsmiths, University of London