Learning about data on the internet

Data is an essential part of any research, whether it be academic, marketing, or scientific . The World Wide Web (WWW) contains all kinds of information from different sources. Some of these are social, financial, security, and academic resources and are accessible via the internet. 

People may want to collect and analyse data from multiple websites. These different websites that belong to specific categories display information in different formats. Even with a single website, you may not be able to see all the data at once. The data may be spanned across multiple pages under various sections.

Most websites do not allow you to save a copy of the data to your local storage. The only option is to manually ...

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