You are invited to join us on Thursday, February 3rd from 10 to 11 AM, for a virtual seminar by Kristopher Jackson, PhD, MSN, AGACNP-BC

Topic: Web Scraping: Implications for Contemporary Health-Sciences Research

Description: While much of the data we generate through our interactions with the Internet have well-established e-commerce applications, Internet data may also provide useful data in academic research. To date, researchers from the health sciences have yet to fully embrace this practice. The purpose of this seminar is to provide a brief overview of web scraping as a data collection method and provide an example of how this practice could be implemented in a health research context.

Learning objectives:

  1. Identify various tools used by researchers when designing and executing projects using web-scraping as a data collection technique
  2. Name several principles of “ethical web-scraping”
  3. List at least one hidden or stigmatized community that may not be reachable using conventional survey research methods, but could be accessible via web-scraping

Please email Davelucero@salud.unm.edu to request Zoom info.