Current Project Objectives
The currents project objectives for this week was to
Catch up on any additional training.
Collect and find data on heirloom tomatoes, eggs, and bacon.
Learning how to do web scraping in python through Datacamp.
Building programs to do web scraping
Works in Progress
An excel sheet that contains a list of small businesses of Iowa grocers that we had to go through and find places that had the data we wanted.
These are some examples of what we were looking for
Along with some manual data scraping. We started work on some data scraping programs (spiders). However, there are still some improvements that still need to be made. This image shows an example output of data we were able to scrape.
DSPG Questions
Are there stores or market places that would be helpful for us to look into?
Is anyone experienced in web scraping and if so there any advice that you have for us?