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Textual analysis of Facebook comments using Python

What this is for: Collecting comments from a public Facebook page and performing a basic content analysis Requirements: Python Anaconda distribution, basic understanding of HTML structure and Chrome inspector tool Concepts covered: Social listening, word clouds For anyone who works in strategic communications, it’s critical that you have a finger on the pulse of your […]

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python data analysis concept

Python for Marketers: Making Selenium web scraper click on links

What this is for: Telling a Selenium web scraper to click on link or enter basic information into a form Requirements: Python Anaconda distribution, Basic knowledge of HTML structure and Chrome Inspector tool Concepts covered: Selenium Selenium is an incredibly useful tool for scraping websites with Python, but occasionally your scraper may need to interact […]

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python data analysis concept

Python for Marketers: Using starts-with() and contains() in Selenium web scraper

What this is for: Isolating elements you want to scrape with Selenium Requirements: Python Anaconda distribution, Basic knowledge of HTML structure and Chrome Inspector tool Concepts covered: Selenium, XPath Occasionally when you’re testing or scraping a web page with Selenium, you may need to select an element or group of elements where you may only […]

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