Scraping and Transforming Research Data: The Case of Peña Nieto’s Tweets
Wednesday, February 1, 12-1:30pm, PCL Data Lab
In this 2-in-1 workshop, you will learn the basics of scraping data from the web and cleaning it up for analysis using two powerful, free, and easy-to-use tools. LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Coordinator Albert A. Palacios will demonstrate Import.io, a web-based platform that lets you extract information from websites and turn it into a data table. UT Libraries Data Management Coordinator Jessica Trelogan will show you how to leverage OpenRefine’s point-and-click interface and intuitive scripting language for basic data exploration tasks and bulk transformations. As a case study, they will scrape Peña Nieto’s Twitter account and clean up the extracted data for subsequent analysis.