This workshop serves as an introduction to the fundamentals of the Python programming language as well as an overview of basic web scraping tasks. We will cover some simple web scraping tasks specifically centered around a political science case study (analyzing Congressional data).
For set-up instructions, please refer to the PDF document under the /instructions
directory.
/demos
- Jupyter notebooks containing coding examples.MITMethods2017_pythonbasic_wshop_nb.ipynb
: Python fundamentals.MITMethods2017_pythonweb_wshop_nb.ipynb
: Web scraping fundamentals.
/instructions
- Detailed instructions on technical set up for this workshop./slides
- Lecture slides for this workshop.