Designing with Numbers: from Data Scraping to DataViz
Scrape data from Wikipedia
A course by Luiz Ludwig , Designer and Artist
About the video: Scrape data from Wikipedia
Overview
“With the page already chosen, it’s time to extract the data! ”
In this video lesson Luiz Ludwig addresses the topic: Scrape data from Wikipedia, 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 extract the data from the page I chose. I'm going to use Google Colab, which is that tool that we saw there in unit 2. Last class, I chose a Wikipedia page that contains all the Oscar winners. Here is that list. If you look, they're all links. I will collect all these links, the first thing I'm going to do. So, I go there on Google Colab, as you've already seen, and I'm going to press File New, New Notebook. A new notebook will open. And then you will enter here in the place where you can write a text. To create a new notebook, You need to be logged in and have a Googl...”
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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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