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  • Project 1

    Scrape Internet Data

    DataInternetWeb Scraping

    Task

    Identify a research question you'd like to answer by collecting a large amount of data from the Internet. Then, generate a Google Sheet or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet of a set of Internet data from one or more sites or from an API. Once you have collected the data, use the spreadsheet to recode and manipulate the data to answer your research question.

    Requirements

    To successfully complete this project, you must do the following:

    Example Research Questions

    You may ask any question you like, as long as it is answerable using internet data. Some examples might include the following:


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