Workshop: Introduction to Web Scraping
Learn about web scraping and add to your methodological toolkit
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This workshop is designed to provide researchers with an introduction to web scraping to be used for research in Empirical Legal Studies. The first part of the workshop introduces the basic structure and function of web pages, to get a theoretical understanding of what web scraping refers to. The second part offers a practical demo of two essential Python libraries for web scraping, BeautifulSoup and Scrapy. By the end of this workshop, participants will have gained introductory knowledge of web scraping techniques and an appreciation for the potential of quantitative observational data in legal research, which is ideal for researchers in Empirical Legal Studies looking to expand their methodological toolkit.
LEVEL: Basic
METHOD: Quantitative
ABOUT THE LECTURER: Julia Krämer is a PhD candidate in Empirical Legal Studies in the Department of Law and Business at the Erasmus School of Law. Her research focuses on the quantitative analysis of law and Data Protection Law.
PREREQUISITES: No prior knowledge is required, though knowledge of Python is beneficial.
ELS Academy’s No-Show Policy:
Please note that the workshops are given by experts in the field who do this on a voluntary basis. Places are often limited and we have people on the waiting list. For this reason, the ELS Academy has a strict no-show policy. In case you are prevented from attending the workshop, kindly send an email to contact@elsacademy.nl at least 48 hours before the workshop to make space for people on the waiting list.
If you do not attend the workshop without prior cancellation, your supervisor will be informed about your no-show and you will not be able to register for another ELS Academy event for the next two months. This is also very unfortunate for us, however, it can be prevented if we receive a simple cancellation via e-mail.
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