This webinar highlighted the process of acquiring and processing web data. This was demonstrated using the example of online real estate sales and rental offers.
The webinar guided participants from the initial stage of evaluating the webpage content, to creating a data acquisition tool, and finally to showcasing potential uses of the collected data.
The webinar also covered the methodological and quality-related challenges when using web data in official statistics, as well as possible solutions developed by the Web Intelligence Network.
The learning objectives of the webinar were:
- understanding the practical aspects of web scraping;
- understanding the methodological challenges;
- recognising the limitations of using real estate web data in official statistics.
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