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Why Do We Automate Data Collection?

We automate data collection to save time, reduce error, add rigor, and promote reproducibility

Adam Ross Nelson
Towards Data Science
6 min readApr 10, 2021

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Introduction & Method

After a recent article on the topic of sourcing federal data, in which I show how to use Python to automate the process of getting data from the US Department of Education (US DOE) and…

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