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Speed Up Your Data Collection With Listly
A free and easy web scraping tool.
As data scientists, we always seek data, after all, you can’t spell data science without “data”. There are many ways to get data, if you work in a company, then probably your company will provide you with the data you need to work on. If you’re an independent data scientist or working freelance, then your clients will give you the data. But, if you’re new to data science or working on developing your skills, then you will need to collect data to use for analysis yourself.
Often, when we need to collect data for a project, the first place we consider is publically available data on the internet. As data scientist we should always be careful with the data we use, we need to make sure that we are only using publically available data and be considerate of data privacy laws and rules.
Once we are sure what data we can use, then we often start looking for the most optimal approach to collect that data and export it in a format that’s easy to use in our analysis process. During my career, using data science for school, work or writing, I got to try several data collection tools or web scrappers.
Today, I will propose to you a tool that I have found quite useful, flexible, and easy to install and start using, Listly. Listly is a free web scraping…
