MIDA Local Training 2th Nov. 2020 → 7th Nov. 2020 Philipps - Marburg University Monday 2nd November : In order to scrape data from websites or to parse already existing data (Wikipedia) researchers need to learn the fundamentals of HTML, XML, and BeautifulSoup Tuesday 3rd November : Certain platforms such as Twitter disclose their data via an API. Researchers willing to receive this data need to learn how to communicate with APIs Wednesday 4th November : After data has been gathered it has to be exported and/or parsed in ways that allow it to be visualized or parsed by machine learning packages. Thursday 5th November : Students will also get the chance to revisit concepts from prior days and continue to exercise with these concepts in case they do not have project specific issues. Friday 6th November : Students will also get the chance to revisit concepts from prior days and continue to exercise with these concepts in case they do not have project specific issues. Saturday 7th November : Students will also get the chance to revisit concepts from prior days and continue to exercise with these concepts in case they do not have project specific issues. [...]