The use of web-scraped data to analyse the dynamics of clothing and footwear prices
Adam Juszczak
Abstract:Web scraping is a technique that makes it possible to obtain information from websites automatically. As online shopping grows in popularity, it became an abundant source of information on the prices of goods sold by retailers. The use of scraped data usually allows, in addition to a significant reduction of costs of price research, the improvement of the precision of inflation estimates and real-time tracking. For this reason, web scraping is a popular research tool both for statistical centers (Eurostat, Bri… Show more
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