Data Mining

Mining the Bundestag

Did you know that the German parliament publishes protocols for all of its proceedings in PDF format? It is relatively straightforward to download and parse them, so we can easily collect a …

Mining tagesschau.de

I like to read tagesschau.de, so I wrote a script to scrape it in regular intervals. My original goal was to determine which articles stay on the front page the longest, which ones allow …