Web scraping is the process of extracting text and numeric data from a webpage using software. Join this workshop to discover how Python, the most popular software for web scraping, makes it easy to extract the data you need from a webpage and store it in a data frame for further analysis. We recommend attendees arrive with a basic understanding of how to run Python code to visualize data. 

Learning Objectives:
- Identify and extract HTML data from a webpage with the inspect feature.
- Use Python’s BeautifulSoup library to extract data and store it in a data frame.
- Demonstrate how Python’s Selenium package allows for advanced data extraction using website interactions such as mouse clicks, filling out forms, etc.
- Understand HTML format, including tags, attributes, etc.
- Distinguish between extracting data through web scraping vs APIs.  

Pre requisites:
- Python basics. (how to run code using Google Colab) 

Instructor: Jacob Grippin