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WebSweep: Collecting Website Text for Research
WebSweep helps researchers capture what was publicly visible on a given date, preserve the raw HTML as a reproducible archive, and turn those pages into analysis-ready text. Use WebSweep when you: have a list of public websites or domains want a repeatable workflow for many domains mainly need HTML text and metadata from public pages In this tutorial, we use the example of FIRMBACKBONE. It is the Dutch research infrastructure to provides secure, FAIR access to comprehensive data on all registered organizations in the Netherlands, including web-based data.
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Map explorer
Ever wanted to create stunning, interactive maps without dealing with servers, databases, or complicated backends?
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Streamlining Data Anonymisation for Research
Whether you’re dealing with interview transcripts, survey responses, or scraped online content, failing to properly anonymise your data can have serious ethical consequences for researchers.
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The Best of Both Worlds: Saving Costs and Time When Using OpenAI's API
When working with OpenAI’s API for large language models (LLMs) in research projects, there are two techniques that can help save both time and costs.
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NetCBS: creating network measures using CBS networks (POPNET) in the RA
The netcbs library provides an easy-to-use query language for networks at Statistics Netherlands.
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Detecting communities in signed networks with Python
In this tutorial, we will guide you through applying two popular community detection algorithms to signed networks, using Python.
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Generating synthetic data in a safe way with metasyn
In this post, we show how to create synthetic data in an auditable, transparent way with the software package metasyn.
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How to manage your IP address in python
If you have ever tried web scraping, you may have run into your IP address being blocked by the website you scrape.
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Training a fastText model from scratch using Python
In this tutorial, we explain how to train a natural language processing model using fastText
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Visualizing international flows with Geoflow visualizer
A new free and open-source tool designed to visualize international flows in an interactive way.
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Wrangling interval data using lubridate
Using time interval objects to robustly extract data from transactions.
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