web scraping

An introduction to web scraping: locating Spanish schools

Introduction Whenever a new paper is released using some type of scraped data, most of my peers in the social science community get baffled at how researchers can do this. In fact, many social scientists can’t even think of research questions that can be addressed with this type of data simply because they don’t know it’s even possible. As the old saying goes, when you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.