Information is an essential piece of data analysis. It comes from diverse sources in different formats. Some information requires a lot of effort to obtain; other data comes clean and structured. Python is a great tool to gather and manipulate any data in any format.
Programming has automated the tedious manual process of copying and pasting information from online sources to spreadsheets. In this chapter, we will discuss various approaches to gathering data. We will start with web scraping ...
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