LA + ONLINE: Web Scraping, Crawling and Spoofing

Speaker: Jake Anderson (UCLA Econ)

This workshop connects applied social science research with practical data skills in a two-part format. The first part presents a large-scale research project on discrimination in the labor market, focusing on how novel data are accessed, constructed, and managed to answer substantive empirical questions. The second part is a hands-on session on web scraping with Selenium, where participants learn how to responsibly collect structured data from public websites using reproducible workflows. The session emphasizes good data practices, from acquisition and documentation to downstream analysis, and is designed to be accessible to researchers working with a wide range of data types.

Join us for a joint event with UC Love Data Week.

NB: [Meetup.com](http://meetup.com/) is set to Central Time for reasons, this event is at 11am-2pm Los Angeles Time. This workshop is two parts. The workshop will run for one hour starting at 11:00am, have a one hour lunch break, and resume at 1:00pm for the final hour.