How can you use web scraping to efficiently collect and visualize rainfall data? In this one-on-one course, you’ll learn how to extract data from websites, store it in a spatial database, and visualize it on interactive maps. You’ll receive personalized guidance and work on practical assignments to master web scraping and data analysis techniques that you can apply right away.
Web scraping is an efficient way to automatically collect data from websites. This technique is particularly important for monitoring dam levels. It allows you to quickly retrieve, analyze, and visualize up-to-date water level data without having to search manually.
With Python, you can easily use web scraping to extract data from websites. Python is a powerful programming language that allows you not only to process large amounts of information but also to structure and analyze this data using popular libraries such as BeautifulSoup and Pandas. This makes it an indispensable tool for professionals in water management and geospatial analysis.
Web scraping thus offers the ability to automatically collect and process data on dam levels, making it quickly available for further analysis and decision-making.
In this course, you’ll learn how to use web scraping to collect dam level data from websites. You’ll start by building a model that processes and visualizes this data by plotting it on a map using a folder.
You’ll also learn to use the Django Template Engine, which offers an alternative to Ajax for sending data from the back end to the front end. This makes it possible to create dynamic web pages that display automatically updated data.
You’ll also learn how to set up a spatial database with PostgreSQL, a widely used database for geospatial data. Furthermore, you’ll build a small dashboard that hovers above your map, including charts that visualize the model data and provide insight into trends in dam levels.
Blended learning combines independent online learning with practical, interactive sessions. This allows you to develop both technical skills and hands-on experience with web scraping, Python, and dam levels. The online modules offer you the flexibility to study at your own pace. They include interactive lessons on data collection, model building, and the visualization of geospatial data. You’ll learn how to use Python for web scraping, store data in a spatial database, and visualize it using Django and maps.
During the hands-on online sessions, you’ll immediately apply the knowledge you’ve gained. You’ll work with real datasets. In addition, you’ll receive guidance from experts in web scraping and geospatial data. You’ll learn how to collect data from websites, store it in PostgreSQL, and visualize it with graphs and interactive maps. By working hands-on with realistic applications, you’ll develop powerful skills in data analysis and web development—essential for professional projects in water management or geodata analysis.
The combination of flexible online learning and practical training ensures that you don’t just learn how to work with Python and web scraping. You’ll also learn how to effectively use these tools to monitor current dam levels. After this course, you’ll be able to work independently with web scraping techniques, process data, and visualize it. This will enable you to make better-informed decisions in your field.
You’ll receive 1-on-1 guidance. After signing up, our course coordinator will contact you to schedule your first session.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Do you have questions about the course content? Or are you unsure whether the course aligns with your learning goals or preferences? Would you prefer an in-house or private course? We’d be happy to help.
After the course, you’ll have another two weeks to ask the instructor questions. Since the instructor is already teaching other courses, it’s best to email your questions to info@geo-ict.nl. Your question will be forwarded to the instructor, and you’ll receive a response within 24 hours.
If you’re a bit further along and encounter practical problems you can’t solve on your own, it’s best to use Online Support. You’ll spend one day online with the instructor and receive personalized one-on-one instruction. All your problems will be resolved, and you’ll have made significant progress.
If you run into problems in practice that you can’t solve on your own, you have two options: you can sign up for a beginner or advanced course, or you can sign up for Online Support.
You’ll spend a day online with an instructor and receive personalized one-on-one instruction. All your problems will be resolved, and you’ll have made significant progress.
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All courses are taught in person. Course hours are from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Coffee, tea, lunch, and a laptop are provided.
Taking a course online is also possible, but we only offer hybrid courses in exceptional cases. If you wish to participate in a course online, please indicate this during registration—select “Online” as the location. If that is not possible, this course will only be offered on-site in Apeldoorn.
Yes, we do this regularly. Our instructor will come to your location and bring laptops for the participants. All you need to do is arrange a classroom at your location.
Please email your requirements to info@geo-ict.nl, and we will send you a quote. Once you’ve confirmed the order, our course coordinator will contact you to schedule the training days.
After each course, participants receive a link to our evaluation portal. There, you can share your feedback on what you liked and didn’t like about the course. We always do our very best, but of course, there may be times when you have a complaint. Click on “Complaints Procedure.” It explains what steps you can take. Geo-ICT Training Center, Netherlands is a member of the Dutch Council for Training and Education (NRTO).
After the course, we will email you a link to our evaluation portal. There, you can log in and fill out an evaluation form, and you can also download your certificate of participation.
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