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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"web scraping"”.
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Identifying Real Estate Development Opportunities: Web-Scraping, Regex Patterns & String-Searching Algorithms
Web-scraping and data mining algorithms are used extensively by hedge funds, equities traders, digital marketers and in the technology sector more broadly. Contrastingly, the real estate development industry continues to use traditional, manual methods to identify and pursue new development …
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Web Scraping e Big data: uma plataforma para extração e análise de páginas
… de big data, e o desenvolvimento de um sistema web que ofereça a capacidade de extração e exploração dos dados obtidos.
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Modern Web Scraping and Data Analysis Tools to Discover Historic Real Estate Development Opportunities
… combines the NPS database with automated web-scraping algorithms to parse publicly available census and market demand data that indicate whether certain markets are of higher investment value than others. Through the development of HTC View, the author and outside partners have raised …
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Attempts to Collect: A Quantitative Analysis of Medical Debt Lawsuits Filed in Thurston County in 2020
… analysis on medical debt; some have used web scraping techniques to collect court data, while others have reviewed thousands of pages of paper documents. In this study, we use web scraping to download court documents. We developed a computer model with novel electronic recognition and …
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Pathos: Enhancing Emotion Detection in Italian and Beyond with a Web-Based Solution [Pathos: miglioramento del riconoscimento delle emozioni in italiano e in contesti multilingue, tramite un'interfaccia web dedicata]
… di un dataset multilingue attraverso tecniche di web scraping, generazione sintetica e traduzione, e l'adozione di strumenti per la gestione e visualizzazione dei dati. La metodologia integra approcci teorici dai sistemi complessi ed elementi etici legati alla mitigazione dei bias. I risultati …
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End-User Customization by Direct Manipulation of Tabular Data
… that implements data-driven customization on the web using web scraping. Through concrete examples, we show that this paradigm can support useful extensions to many real websites, and we share reflections from our experiences using the tool. Finally, we share our broader vision for data-driven …
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El mercado formal de alquileres residenciales en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
… datos original construida mediante técnicas de web scraping, incluyendo aproximadamente 10.000 avisos de departamentos en alquiler. Los resultados muestran que la oferta de alquileres tiene un alto nivel de concentración territorial. Esta se distribuye principalmente en las comunas del centro y …
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Reviews of Applications for Smartphone-Connected Hearing Aids and Implications on Counseling
… for hearing aid applications can be proposed. Web scraping techniques were used to review hearing aid smartphone applications using the Android operating system. The data were then coded based on themes that emerged from the analysis, which was subsequently used to determine the areas in which …
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Civic Atlas: Open Government, Civic Tech, and Making Zoning Case Data More Accessible
… an application called “Civic Atlas” that uses web scraping to reformat zoning board meeting agendas into interactive maps and visualizations. To identify the need for this application, the thesis uses an analysis of zoning cases in sixty cities across the United States to determine whether …
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Local Reuse of Furniture Enabled by User-to-User Online Platforms
… for local reuse via U2U online platforms, web-scraping was conducted on Craigslist posts over a four-month period to collect data regarding furniture type, condition, and location. In parallel, individuals were invited to complete a questionnaire regarding their use of U2U online platforms …
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Money for Nothing: An analysis of the gratifications motivating the purchase of non-compulsory video streaming subscription products
… Data was collected using a survey instrument and web scraping. Negative binomial, hurdle, and logistic regression analyses support four primary findings. (1) An increased desire for altruistic gratification positively influences the quantity of subscription products purchased and the quantity of …
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From Information Overload to Knowledge Graphs: An Automatic Information Process Model
… that employs advanced IT techniques such as web scraping, natural language processing, and knowledge graphs. The model can automatically process the full cycle of information flow, from information Search to information Collection, Information Extraction, and Information Visualization, making …
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Understanding and quantifying value capture and the role of information in migration decisions : a case of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Corridor, India
… The data analysis includes data collected via web-scraping and the gathering of about 25,000 datapoints, as well as rental and income data from 52 field interviews of migrants -- primarily working in the informal sector. In concluding its findings and analysis, the Thesis finds that solving …
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Dealing with uncertainty in health economic decision modeling. Applying statistical and data science methods
… publications show how new methods, for example web-scraping, can be used to inform behavioral, epidemiological as well as health economic input parameters of models. They also present how uncertainties can be explored and communicated to decision makers. The last two articles explore the …
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Auditoría visual vehicular mediante Deep Learning: un pipeline modular de Computer Vision aplicado al parque automotor y la infraestructura vial en Argentina
… de alta siniestralidad, obtenido mediante web scraping de una plataforma web de publicación de autos usados y nuevos, recurso que no existía previamente para el contexto local. Sobre ese dataset, el clasificador de marca-modelo alcanzó un Top-1 Accuracy de 99,07% y Top-5 de 99,92% y el …
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The air allowed for Hair: cultural Inclusivity in Cape Town Private Schools
… analysed publicly available data from school websites collected using Python-based web scraping tool. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was employed to examine how school values influence hair experiences. Three distinct categories of schools emerged: faith-based, academic-focused, and …
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Making Bureaucracy Accountable: Three Essays on Bureaucratic Accountability in China
… invoking accountability sanctions. Adopting a web-scraping approach, I examine the openness of 17,251 Chinese government websites from locations in 135 countries based on residential proxy IPs. I find that on average, 14.48% of Chinese government websites deny access to foreign visitors. A …
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Firms and Territories in 4.0 Transformations: Evidence from Italian Technological Knowledge Intensive Business Services
… using information extracted from t-KIBS websites, collected through web-scraping techniques. Then, a probit model with sample selection was employed to identify the most important territorial and firm-related factors influencing the decision to develop and/or provide 4.0 technologies. The …
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The Wealth and Color of Off-Campus Recruiting by Public Research Universities
… Recruiting visits were collected from “web-scraping” travel schedules from admissions websites and from issuing public records requests. These recruiting data are then merged to secondary data on the characteristics of high schools and communities. The first empirical study in Chapter 3 …
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Advancing measures of the out-of-home food environment: a big data approach
… available big data. In this thesis, I used web scraping to harvest publicly available big data and established two databases: MenuTracker and TakeawayTracker. Using these two databases, I quantified the out-of-home consumer nutrition environment —a dimension of the food environment that …
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