/MITPolMeth-IntroPython-03-2017

Repository for Jupyter notebooks, slides, codes and other materials from the MIT Political Science Methods Workshop on 03/17/2017 (Introduction to Python and Web Scraping).

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MIT Political Science Methods Workshop

Introduction to Python and Web Scraping

March 17th, 2017

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).

  • setup.pdf - Detailed instructions on technical set up for this workshop.
  • fundamentals.ipynb - Jupyter notebook on Python fundamentals.
  • web.ipynb - Jupyter notebook on web-scraping.