Designing with Numbers: from Data Scraping to DataViz
Choose a web page
A course by Luiz Ludwig , Designer and Artist
About the video: Choose a web page
Overview
“In this class, we will choose a Wikipedia page to extract content. I'll show you how I choose a page that has interesting data to collect.”
In this video lesson Luiz Ludwig addresses the topic: Choose a web page, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing with Numbers: from Data Scraping to DataViz. You will learn the fundamentals of data scraping and visualization. You will be able to transform raw data into beautiful insights with ease..
Partial transcription of the video
“♫ In this class, I will choose some web page that has interesting data to be collected. With over a billion web pages, we have many options to choose from. So here, I'm going to focus on sites that are in the public domain. or who have their data open. I'll walk through some examples and choose someone who has data that interests me. First, I'm going to open the Gutenberg project in the browser. The website is gutenberg.org and you can access many books that are in the public domain. I'm going to choose here a book by Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro. Machado de Assis is a very important Braz...”
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Course summary for: Designing with Numbers: from Data Scraping to DataViz
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Category
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Areas
Graphic Design, Infographics, Information Design
Luiz Ludwig
A course by Luiz Ludwig
Meet Luiz Ludwig, a talented designer and visual artist specialized in Dataviz or data visualization. His passion lies in creating graphic and interactive pieces that use data as raw material to generate relevant and creative visual stories. Through his work, he seeks to demystify the "nerdy aura" and exact sciences that surround this art form, bringing it to a wider audience.
Luiz is an expert in using free platforms to collect and analyze data from HTML pages, which allows him to create Dataviz in an accessible and exciting way. With this course, he will share his knowledge with you, teaching you to use data science as a tool to express ideas and generate visual impact. If you are looking to combine programming and art in an incredible match, this course invites you to discover the creative possibilities of Dataviz.
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