Hello! Following the popular web scraping seminar presented by Jo-eun, 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!