Introduction to Data Visualization
Introduction to data scraping
A course by Victor Pascual , Data Visualization Specialist
About the video: Introduction to data scraping
Overview
“There are many tables of data on the Internet that can be useful for our project. However, these data are not put in an easy way to download. For this, there are tools that allow us to "scrape them" and dump them in a spreadsheet to work freely with them. In this lesson we will see especially the operation of the "Scraper" plugin for Chrome and we will briefly comment on how the HTML code of web pages is structured to understand how this type of software works.”
In this video lesson Victor Pascual addresses the topic: Introduction to data scraping, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Data Visualization. Create interactive visualizations and learn to represent data from your favorite series.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hello again. As we mentioned earlier. we will now start with the practical part of the project. Just as we’ve seen in the information visualization process. the first step is to have data that we will later transform into information. Therefore. we will begin choosing the data we will work with. In this case. we'll use the IMDb website. which I assume many of you already know. However. what we're to learn today can be applied to any other site featuring rankings or ratings. Specifically. this teach you how to effectively analyze and utilize ranking data on various platforms. The process. kn...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Data Visualization
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Design, Marketing & Business -
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Google Sheets, Tableau Public -
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Infographics, Information Design, Interactive Design, Multimedia
Victor Pascual
A course by Victor Pascual
Víctor Pascual is a self-confessed lover of scientific data visualization, who has a doctorate in computer science and digital communication. He dedicated his doctoral thesis to researching new methods for representing web data and has been a data scientist and data visualization specialist since 2009.
After three years as part of the Bestiario team, Víctor began his new adventure as a data analysis and visualization consultant for companies including SIRIS Academic and Mobile Media Content, where he leads a diverse range of R&D projects.
Víctor is also committed to training in information visualization, which led him to codirect Spain's first postgraduate course on the subject (IDEC) as well as participate in a number of different conferences and workshops. He currently collaborates with different master's and postgraduate degree programs.
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