Web Scraping for Data Science

Catalog description

This class is offered in partnership with Purdue University and the Indiana Data Mine. The Data Mine is a supportive environment for students in any major and from any background who want to learn some data science skills. Students will have hands-on experience with computational tools for representing, extracting, manipulating, interpreting, transforming, and visualizing data, especially big data sets, and in effectively communicating insights about data. Topics for this course include: web scraping, Python, XML, BeautifulSoup, selenium, Spark SQL, and applications to big data. Prerequisite: MA 121 or instructor approval.