https://dimitris.netlify.app/tags/data-collection/ Recent content in data-collection on Dimitris Kokoretsis Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://dimitris.netlify.app/posts/web-scraping/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://dimitris.netlify.app/posts/web-scraping/ <img src="https://dimitris.netlify.app/posts/web-scraping/thumbnail.gif"/> So far in this blog, we&rsquo;ve tried to answer questions by creating &ldquo;fake&rdquo; artificial data, and finding patterns in it. That&rsquo;s fun and all, but sometimes we just need data from the real world. Take for example the simple question: Which are the 10 most densely populated countries? In this post we&rsquo;ll focus on data collection instead of analysis. As long as the data is accessible and somewhat structured in a webpage, we&rsquo;ll see how to extract it for further processing and analysis - without tedious copy-pasting but with a code-based process called web scraping.