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Web Scraping with Python’s Beautiful Soup

McMaster University

This workshop will introduce attendees to techniques for scraping information from the web using Python’s Beautiful Soup (bs4) toolkit. We will begin with a basic overview of the “anatomy” or structure of a webpage. Students will then learn how to write a script for extracting textual data from websites like Reddit and organizing it into spreadsheets. The second half of the workshop will explore how to use Python’s Pandas library to clean and analyze your data. In addition to technical skills, students are encouraged to engage with critical questions like: What is web scraping for and what can we, as researchers, learn from publicly available data? What are the potential ethical and legal challenges of data harvesting, and how do we do it responsibly?

Introduction to/à R

Date: 15 February 2024 R is a free and open-source programming language for statistical computing, modelling, and graphics, with an unbeatable collection of statistical packages. It is extremely popular in […]

Introduction to\à Python

Date: 15 February 2024 In this short session, we will demo some of Python’s capabilities to researchers new to the language, starting with multiple ways to run Python, high-level data […]

3D Visualization

Date: 16 February 2024 3D visualization has been used in traditional scientific computing for several decades to visualize the results of multidimensional numerical simulations. In humanities, 3D visualizations have been […]

3D Visualization With XR Technology

Toronto Metropolitan University 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Have you ever wished you could stand in and study an imaginary or long-vanished space–from a work of literature or from a distant period in history, or perhaps a virtual […]

Introduction to programming with Python

February 26-28, 2024, 12:00-2:00 pm EST Welcome by: Presented by: Alex Razoumov Duration: 3 * 120 minutes (total 6 hours) Description: Python can be used in many humanities and social […]

Introduction to Programming with R

February 26-28, 2024, 12:00-2:00 pm EST Presented by: Marie-Hélène Burle Duration: 3 * 120 minutes (total 6 hours) Description: R is a free and open-source programming language for statistical computing, […]

3D Printing Soup to Nuts

McMaster University

This is a day-long workshop that will explore 3d modelling and printing. We’ll take a physical object from the real world, use a series of sophisticated software to render it into a 3d model, and then learn how to print that model on a 3d printer.

Safeguarding your research data

York University 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Grant applications and ethics protocols suggest you need to ensure research data is kept secure, but the “how” of managing this task is rarely addressed. We’ll guide you through common research […]