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 # Scraping Data From Various Sources
+ As a data scientist, I often find myself looking for external data sources that could be relevant for my machine learning projects. The problem is that it is uncommon to find open source data sets that perfectly correspond to what you are looking for, or free APIs that give you access to data. In this case, web scraping can be one solution to get more data.