Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data - ProPublica - 1 views
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Judy Brophy on 17 Jan 11If 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