/pycas2020_web_scraping

Short presentation on web scraping using beautiful soup for the Pycascades conference held February, 2020.

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Presentation for the Pycascades Conference held Feb 7-10, 2020 in Portland, OR. A brief introduction into using beautiful soup for web scraping, using address information of Family Dollar stores to demonstrate the concepts.

The presentation was made in R using rmarkdown to generate the slides and reticulate to call Python.

The presentation can be downloaded here