The Tech Commandments are a reaction to what I have seen and experienced in schools over the past several years. I am a firm believer that successful implementation of educational technology is on...
If you are a complete novice and have no short-term plan to learn how to code, it may still be worth your time to find out about what it takes to gather data by scraping web sites -- so you know what you're asking for if you end up hiring someone to do the technical work for you.
How to get data from a PDF, for example