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Introduction of web scraping

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Introduction of web scraping

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- [Instructor] Web scraping is a cornerstone technique in data science. Web scraping automates the extraction of data from websites, thus allowing us to gather large amounts of information really quickly. The tool we use for this purpose is known as a web scraper. Today, we'll dig into how web scrapers transform the raw data from websites into a format that's readily available for analysis. You might wonder why web scraping is so important. The internet is a treasure trove of data, stock prices, sports statistics, product details, and more. Manually collecting this data is a daunting task, though. That said, it's essential for many business activities including market research and analytics. Web scrapers streamline this process by efficiently gathering data that's crucial for organizational decision making. Web scraping offers several advantages. It enables the automatic extraction of fast data sets while also significantly reducing manual efforts and associated costs. This method is…

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