Lunch & Learn: Learn Web Scraping with Python to Make Informed Business Decisions

In this free workshop, you will learn how to automate the extraction of data from websites. Web scraping helps companies gather large sets of information and build prediction models to make informed business decisions. Did you know that Google is based on web scraping and that it is actually the foundation of web scraping?

In just 1 hour, you'll learn:

• How to run code in Jupyter Notebooks, get acquainted with Python, and understand how webpages are structured and where the data you want to retrieve is located.
• The basics of Python programming and how to use popular packages to easily scrape data from webpages.
• How to gather data for your Data Analysis projects and train powerful predictive Machine Learning and Deep Learning models.

Matteo Bianchi, Founder, Le Wagon Sydney 

Former investment banker turned Software Engineer / Founder, Matteo arrived in Sydney last April to start the local campus of the globally acclaimed tech boot camp Le Wagon. Matteo previously founded Le Wagon in Toulouse, and today he spends his time either teaching Web Development and UX/UI design or eating sand during beach volleyball tournaments.

Abdullah Anwar, Cloud Data Engineer, NRI Australia & New Zealand 

After a Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Abdullah started working at Deloitte as a Technical Writer. To accelerate his career and break into the Data job market, Abdullah joined Le Wagon Melbourne’s Data Science course in 2021. Today he loves teaching Data modules at Le Wagon in his spare time, as he is a full-time Cloud Data Engineer in Sydney.

A Bit About Le Wagon

Le Wagon emerged in 2013 as one of the first tech boot camps in the world, offering web development, data science, and data analytics programs. Since then, it has grown into a robust global community of tech talent, with over 40 Le Wagon campuses in cities like Amsterdam, Berlin, Lisbon, London, Melbourne, Mexico, Montreal, Singapore, São Paulo, and Paris.

Le Wagon is now coming to Sydney, in October 2023!

Thanks to this expansion, Le Wagon has helped over 20,000 developers, data scientists, designers, and entrepreneurs start new careers in tech. Today, the school continues to inspire tech enthusiasts to find their path in the industry.