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SUMMARY:Webinar: Web-scraping for Social Science Research: APIs as a Sour
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DESCRIPTION:Vast swathes of our social interactions and personal behaviou
 rs are now conducted online and/or captured digitally. In addition to co
 mmon sources such as social media/network platforms and text corpora\, w
 ebsites and online databases contain rich information of relevance to so
 cial science research. Thus\, computational methods for collecting data 
 from the web are an increasingly important component of a social scienti
 st’s toolkit.\n\nThis free webinar\, organised by the UK Data Service\, 
 is the third in a series of three on how to collect data from the web us
 ing computational methods. Specifically\, this webinar delineates the va
 lue\, logic and process of capturing data stored in online databases thr
 ough an API (application programming interface). Presented by Dr Diarmui
 d McDonnell of the UK Data Service\, this webinar will cover the step-by
 -step process of downloading data via an API\, including providing sampl
 e code written in the popular Python programming language. It demonstrat
 es techniques for downloading public information on the Covid-19 pandemi
 c\, as well as for a range of other social science subjects (e.g.\, crim
 e data via the Police UK API\, business information via the Companies Ho
 use API).\n\nBook a place at https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-ev
 ents/eventsitem/?id=5606
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LOCATION:Online
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