What kinds of careers often deal with web scraping and doing these sorts of tasks? I am really interested in the field and some of you seem to be real experts in this field.
- developers who want to develop some data-based product (a travel agency website, who finds the best deals from airline companies);
- lawyers can use it to structure the data from Judgments and Laws (so that they are able to query the data for things like: which judges have interpreted this law in their judgments) (more on this: http://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/01/13/vizlegal-rise-of-mach...)
- (data-)journalists who work on investigative data-based articles (they use it to gather the data to build visualizations, infographics, and also to support their arguments).
- real state agencies can use it to grab the prices of their competitors, or to get a map of what people are selling, what are the areas where there is more demand.
- large companies that want to track their online reputation can scrape forums, blogs, etc, for further analysis.
- online retailers that want to keep their prices balanced with their competitors can scrape the competitors websites collecting prices from them.
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