Webscraping Responsibly for Social Science Research - Graham MacDonald

Published: 03 January 2019
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PyData DC 2018

At the Urban Institute, our Data Science team works with social scientists every day to elevate the debate around social and economic policy. Webscraping in Python is one way we help provide evidence and support research. In this talk, I’ll walk through the projects we work on, the tools we’ve built, and the organizational policy we developed to support responsibly collected web data for research.

Slides: https://t.co/MM2x14dJt7
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