SF Python is bringing it's Project Night to Metis/Dev Boot Camp. It's going to be an evening of getting your questions answered, sharing your knowledge, hacking, taking tutorials, & enjoying food & drinks provided by our venue host Metis/Dev Boot Camp.
Who should attend?
New to Python & want to work with other Pythonistas
Experienced devs who want to hack on your work, personal or open-source projects
Experienced devs who want to mentor others
Anyone that's interested in our tutorial offerings
The plan:
6:00p Begin check-in
6:50p Introductions: tell us about your project and/or the kind of help you seek
7:00p Make yourself comfortable & start hacking, or attend one of the tutorials
9:30p Wrap up / Door close
Tutorials:
#1 Web scraping by Ling Kong
When you dodatascience projects, it's common to need to finddatafrom the web. At Metis, one of our projects focused ondatacollection using web scraping & our students have done projects on predicting movie success, beer price, sports performance, torrenting activities & many other, using scraped webdata.
In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of web scraping through several examples. You will learn to write your own script to retrieve & extract information programmatically using Python packages such as BeautifulSoup. With a scraper, you can collectdataabout housing prices through listing sites, you can get specificdataof a list of jobs from craigslist, or you can get a large corpus of product reviews to play around. There are countess ideas for your personal passion project.
We will also explore ways to extractdatafrom a website more dynamically using a web driver called Selenium. This will come handy when you encounter dynamically generated webpages & need to interact with log-ins or search bars, etc. By the end of this tutorial, you will have a fully functional Python web scrape that can step through a series of pages & extract usefuldataand organize them into adataframe ready for your machine learning models (black-magic)!
More tutorials TBD
Hope to see you there!
**SF Python is run by volunteers aiming to foster the Python Community in the bay area. Please considermaking a donationto SF Python & saying a big thank you to Metis/DevBootCamp for providing food, drinks, & the venue for this Wed's meetup.
