Silk's Summer Webinar Episode 1 - How to collect and scrape data (with Alex Gimson from Import.io)
Channel: silkapp
Date: 2015-07-22

This is a recording from the first episode of Silk's Summer Webinar series and took place on July 22nd, 12-1 pm EDT / 9-10am PDT.

In this webinar, you'll learn how the Silk data journalism team uncovers the best data. And for data that doesn't come in a handy download, you'll learn how to scrape it yourself from Alex Gimson, Community Evangelist at Import.io. We're very excited that Alex could've joined us. 

In the first 10 minutes, our in-house data journalist Caspar will showcase some resources that have data which is ready to download and use in other projects. He'll explain how he goes about finding data for different subjects, and what to look for in a good dataset.

After this, he'll be joined by Alex from Import.io, which is a free web scraper tool that can be used to scrape data from websites which don't offer their data in a neat package. It really is an amazing tool, and we're proud that Alex will join us to explain how it works.

We'll also show how to create a Silk.co from the dataset Alex extracted, something which we'll go into in later webinars.