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16–20 Sept 2024
United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC - BKK)
Asia/Bangkok timezone

ESCAP has organized a series of training webinars on web scraping for consumer price indices from May to September 2024. The webinars have covered sharing of experiences, challenges of web scraping, ethical issues in web scraping, the development and application of ICT tools for web scraping in Python. This training process has also included a set of homework exercises. Participants have also benefited from the expertise mentors to enhance their knowledge.


This in-person workshop is a follow-up from the webinars  in Bangkok, Thailand on  16-20 September 2024, and which is the focus on this concept note. The overall aim of the  workshop is to strengthen web scraping skills acquired through  a series of  webinars undertaken since May 20204. 

Objectives  and Expected Outcomes
The in-person workshop's overall aim is to embed the knowledge and skills delivered to participants via the webinars May through August 2024. By the end of the workshop, participants will: 
•    Have embedded Python coding knowledge and skills for web scraping prices data and applied this to their chosen website.
•    Understand how to process and clean web-scraped data, ready for inclusion into the CPI calculation process.
•    Have discussed further and explored coding to automate a pipeline for incorporating web scraped prices data into the NSO’s processes. 
•    Have a deeper appreciation of the methodological challenges for incorporating web scraped prices into CPI calculations, and how to overcome these.

Starts
Ends
Asia/Bangkok
In-Person
United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC - BKK), Bangkok City, Thailand
United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC-BKK)/Meeting Room A-Level 1

The closing date of registration is 15 August 2024.