In this chapter, we introduce you to the concept of web scraping and highlight why the practice is useful to data scientists. After illustrating some interesting recent use cases of web scraping across various fields and industry sectors, we make sure you’re ready to get started with web scraping by preparing your programming environment.
Web “scraping” (also called “web harvesting,” ...
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