A Gentle Introduction into Extracting Data

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Extracting Data from PDFs
Far too much data is trapped in PDFs. In order to be able to work with, analyse and visualise data, we need it in machine-readable formats. It's often not easy to the data out again, but sometimes possible - find out how here.
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Making data on the web useful: scraping
Learn how to scrape without code in 5 minutes and when you might need to invest time in more sophisticated techniques.
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Summary

In this course we’ve covered Web scraping and how to extract data from websites. The main function of scraping is to convert data that is semi-structured into structured data and make it easily useable for further processing. While this is a relatively simple task with a bit of programming – for single webpages it is also feasible without any programming at all. We’ve introduced =importHTML and the Scraper extension for your scraping needs.

Scraping more than one webpage: Scraperwiki

A Gentle Introduction into Extracting Data

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