WIN webinar: Measuring construction activities using data from the web, 16 October 2023

Muhammad Suffian
Muhammad Suffian • 16 November 2023
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This webinar focused on using web scraping to extract data from real estate web portals for Official Statistics. Participants were introduced to the structure of real estate portals in Germany and the importance of data from the web for Official Statistics.

The learning objectives included:

  • understanding the relevance of web scraping in Official Statistics, with particular attention given to the value of real estate data;
  • providing an overview of how to harvest the underlying structure of web portals and utilise it for effective data extraction;
  • acquiring a foundational understanding of the html/xml-structure of web portals as a basis for automatic data collection;
  • participants shown how scraped data can be prepared and analysed.

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