Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has prompted the grievous mission to collect and archive digital evidence of war crimes. Read how Mnemonic is using web scraping to collect social media data for further use in international law, journalism, research, and memory preservation.
Inspired by the book on combatting disinformation by Ján Markoš, Data Academy students decided to dedicate their data project to analyzing the Czech media narrative of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
When a research team set out to build a machine translation module for Syrian and Moroccan migrants and refugees, it faced a significant challenge: how do you get enough data for dialects used only in casual conversation? This is how web scraping became the solution.
What are the latest technological trends in the field of academia? What software do academics use? What are the best digital research tools and online research methods for students and scholars? We tackled these questions, and the answers will surprise you.
Web scraping speeds up the data extraction process for both academic or market research. Manual research is fine when copying and pasting information from a few websites, but web scraping is the way to get data for more extensive projects.