Rhys Parry is a research fellow in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. I didn’t set out to build a career on other people’s data.

Information is the new oil, and fast data extraction sets leaders apart. As web data grows rapidly, practical tools are needed to extract this information. Traditional web scraping methods often ...

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