Web Scraping with Generative AI & Python (Part 2)

✨ Workshop: Web Scraping with Generative AI and Python: Hands-on Practice and Experience Sharing ✨

Hello! Following the popular web scraping seminar presented by Joeun, we're excited to announce a hands-on workshop on the same topic.

• Date and Time: September 21, 2024, 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM KST
• Location: Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, 3rd Floor, 211 Teheran-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul (Venue sponsored by Wishket)
• Note for Participants: Please be aware that there will be a cat 🐈 present at the workshop venue. If you have cat allergies or are uncomfortable around cats, we kindly ask you to take this into consideration when deciding to attend.
• What to Bring:
• A laptop with Python installed (Google Colab is also an option if you don't have Python)
• Accounts for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or similar AI tools
• Ideas for websites you'd like to scrape
• Participants: Limited to 30 people (first-come, first-served)
• Who Can Join: Open to all women
• Cost: 25,000 KRW (Please transfer to Toss Bank 1001-0090-0506 Yoon Sujin)
• If you're unable to pay the fee, please contact us at seoul@pyladies.com
• Schedule:
• Networking (1:00 PM - 1:30 PM)
• Brief introduction to PyLadies Seoul and sharing of Code of Conduct
• Ice-breaking activities
• Demonstration (1:30 PM - 2:50 PM)
• Understanding Generative AI and RAG: Basic concepts and use cases
• Tool introduction and demo: Python's BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium, and integration with Generative AI and RAG
• Examples: Summarizing text data, extracting key information, generating text
• Hands-on Practice (3:00 PM - 4:50 PM)
• Web scraping practice: Collecting data from news sites, e-commerce sites, etc.
• Example: Collecting titles, dates, and content from specific news articles and summarizing using AI
• Example: Gathering product names, prices, and ratings from e-commerce sites and building an SQLite database
• Presentations and Feedback (5:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
• Data presentations: Sharing collected data and results from AI processing
• Feedback session and networking
• Practice Topic Ideas:
• News data collection and summarization
• E-commerce data collection and analysis
• Social media data collection and sentiment analysis
• Public data collection and visualization
• How to Apply:
• We welcome anyone interested in web scraping and gaining hands-on experience. We look forward to your participation!
• Frequently Asked Questions:
• Q: Can I participate if I'm not familiar with Python?
• A: Yes, absolutely! We'll have coaches available to help you through any difficult parts. This is a great opportunity to discover the charm of Python together.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at seoul@pyladies.com. Thank you!