Web Scraping, Crawling and Spoofing (Part 2)

Speaker: Jake Anderson (UCLA)

Join the Zoom workshop(opens in a new tab).

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.

Note: This workshop is two parts. The workshop will run for one hour starting at 11 a.m., have a one hour break and resume at 1 p.m. for the final hour.