Diarmuid McDonnellDiarmuid McDonnell discusses how social scientists can access real-time datasets on the Covid-19 outbreak, and how this data might be used to inform policy relating to the crisis.
At the UK Data Service, we are developing a training russia rcs data series on new forms of data for social scientists, such as how researchers might collect data from the web or social media platforms, or process and analyse large volumes of text.
As part of this series we are exploring ways in which social scientists can capture data relating to the Covid-19 emergency, which is having such a profound impact on our lives at this moment in time.
This will be covered in a webinar that I am hosting on April 23 and which will be available online shortly after.
The webinar will cover the step-by-step process of collecting or web-scraping data, as it is known, from a web page, including providing interactive sample code written in the popular Python programming language.