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Collection of structured Web data in Scala
The Web contains the most comprehensive source of data available, however, not all of the data is easily accessible. In this lightning talk, I will cover different techniques used to extract web data by using structured data such as microdata, json-ld and social media formats. Moreover, I will present the different Scala libraries used to parse the different structured data types. This talk has two aims:
- To highlight the importance of the data collection phase by showcasing original extraction techniques of web data
- To present the benefits of using Scala to deal with such a sensitive task to guarantee fault-tolerance and reliability of the collection pipeline
- Session length
- 10 minutes
- Language of the presentation
- English
- Target audience
- Intermediate: Requires a basic knowledge of the area
- Who is your session intended to
- People who are interested in web data collection techniques
- Speaker
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Kevin Eid
(Software Engineer at Zalando Ireland Ltd)
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