December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
682 pages
18h 1m
English
Content preview from Numerical Computing with Python
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Getting ready
In this recipe, we will use the read_html function, which comes heavily equipped to scrape data from tables online and turn them into DataFrames. You will also learn how to inspect web pages to find the underlying HTML for certain elements. I used Google Chrome as my browser and suggest you use it, or Firefox, for the web-based steps.