Learning with Peter Tang, Web Scraping and Data Visualization Professional with Amazon's Hands-on Experience
What you'll learn
- Concepts and application of web scraping
- Code-free web scraping with Octoparse advanced mode
- Data Preparation with Excel and Tableau
- Processing of scraped data - cleaning, storing, maintenance
- Data visualization with Tableau - charts, trends, filters, dashboards, storyline
- Hands on project - scraping data from Amazon best sellers for all departments
- Hands on project - scraping data from Amazon by keyword search
- Hands on project - scraping review data from Amazon from multiple countries
Requirements
- Familiarity with Google Chrome
- Familiarity with Microsoft Excel
- Basic understanding of Tableau or other data visualization tools
- Access to software Octoparse, Tableau Public (see course for download details)
Description
Web scraping refers to systematically extracting data ('scraping') from websites ('web').
In business intelligence, web scraping is a cost-effective way for companies to collect market information such as product description, seller information, product price, customer review and so. Web scraping also provides companies information in a timely and unbiased manner when compared to conventional sources, such as market research reports.
Part 1. Code-free Web Scraping
- Basic knowledge of web scraping and its use cases
- Octoparse - a leading application for code-free web scraping
- Hands-on projects to scrape data from Amazon
- Amazon Best Sellers
- Amazon Product Search
- Amazon Reviews by Country
- Octoparse web scrapers used in tutorials will be provided to students and are ready to use
- Basic knowledge of data visualization and its use cases
- Tableau - a leading application for self-serve analytics
- Visualization of data from web scraping
- Amazon Best Sellers
- Amazon Product Search
- Amazon Reviews by Country
- Tableau workbook used in tutorials will be provided to students and are ready to use
- That are comfortable of learning new applications
- Wanting to collect public information, such as sellers, products, customers without coding experience
- Wanting to analyze and visualize large amount of information for high-level trends and hidden insights
- Watch the sample videos provided to know more about myself, teaching style, and applications (Octoparse, Tableau)
- Look up other web scraping courses and tutorials to see if this is something you are interested in
- Sign up the course anyway but make sure to make the last day for Udemy's 30 days money-back guarantee
- Business analyst interested in code-free web scraping for data collection
- Business analyst interested in fundamental data visualization for presentation
- Pricing analyst interested in price collection and reporting
