Web scraping with Python
Let's start a new Python notebook by going to File and selecting New Jupyter Notebook. We can assign it the following name: PercentBikeRiders by Country. We will scrape a table from the following Wikipedia website: https://github.com/asherif844/PracticalBusinessIntelligence/wiki/AdventureWorks---Detail-by-CountryCode.
This table lists country codes with the percentage of bicycle riders, as seen in the following screenshot:
In our new notebook, our first lines of code will import all of the required modules that we just finished installing, as seen in the following script:
#import packages into the project from bs4 import ...
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