Web Scraping & Mapping {orcas} Encounters
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📆 April 20, 2023 // 15-minute talk
🏨 Seattle, WA
🆓 R-Ladies Seattle and Seattle useR Group
Abstract
R-Ladies Seattle invited me to give a talk for the ‘R in the Outdoors’ meetup. This was my first in-person talk of my professional career! I used this as an opportunity to learn new skills through a personal project. I’ve always had an affinity for the Southern Resident Killer Whales in the Salish Sea. The Center for Whale Research does a lot of really fascinating and important work monitoring their population. They post their survey data on their website; each encounter with the orcas is a separate webpage. Lately, I’ve been curious and intimidated by web scraping so I decided this would make a great case study and personal project.
I ended up also going to the Seattle useR Group lightning talks meetup afterwards and spontaneously gave the same presentation there!
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Citation
@online{ryan2023,
author = {Ryan, Jadey},
title = {Web {Scraping} \& {Mapping} \{Orcas\} {Encounters}},
date = {2023-04-20},
url = {https://jadeyryan.com/talks/2023-04-20_rladies_orcas-web-scraping},
langid = {en}
}