Mandel-scrapping day!

Dear pythonistas,

our next meetup will be hosting Tariq and Teodora introducing few practical web scraping tecninques and the fascinating Mandelbrot sets.

Teodora Baeva, "Practical Web-scraping"

Tariq Rashid, "Make Your Own Mandelbrot"
As per usual, please don't forget to register at Skillsmatter:

https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/7019-practical-web-scraping-and-making-your-own-mandelbrot

Tariq Rashid, "Make Your Own Mandelbrot"

A gentle journey into the beautiful mathematics of theMandelbrot fractal, with Python -- assuming no previous programming, and only school level maths.

link to previous slides for PyData

http://slides.com/makeyourownmandelbrot/make-your-own-mandelbrot#/ (http://slides.com/makeyourownmandelbrot/make-your-own-mandelbrot#/)

blog is at

http://makeyourownmandelbrot.blogspot.co.uk/ (http://makeyourownmandelbrot.blogspot.co.uk/)

Teodora Baeva, "Practical Web-scraping"

She's going to go through 5 practical examples of web-scraping using the great packages beautiful soup, selenium and (of course) requests, and some tricks that made possible the cracking of some web sites that appeared impenetrable at first sight.