Concise overview of things learned. Break it up into Technical Area, Tools, Soft Skills:
Technical: I have learned how to use Selenium with Python to scrape a website and the Pandas library to format it.
Tools: I have learned how to use organizational tools such as Asana, Slack, and GitHub.
Soft Skills: I have gained soft skills in team communication and collaboration.
Three achievement highlights:
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Successfully scraped Amazon Sellers Form using Selenium.
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Used Pandas to put scraped data into a dataframe.
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Effectively collaborated with teammates on tasks.
List of meetings/ training attended including social team events
Team Meetings: 6/1, 6/2, 6/9, 6/13
Webinars: Git Webinar (6/5)
Training Sessions: Python Training 1 (6/6)
Goals for the upcoming week. Next self-assessment will be due on the following Tuesday 06/23:
My goals for the next week are to learn about BERT and data cleaning as well as how we will use the data we have gathered to develop a training model.
Detailed statement of tasks done. State each task, hurdles faced if any and how you solved the hurdle. You need to clearly mark whether the hurdles were solved with the help of training webinars, some help from project leads or significant help from project leads.
Task 1: GSuite, Slack, Asana, and GitHub Setup
- Task 1 Hurdles: Complications with the GSuite account not being setup that were solved with the help of the project leads.
Task 2: Used selenium and pandas to scrape data from the Amazon Seller Form in the Amazon Custom category.
- Task 2 Hurdles: Had trouble selecting specific elements on the webpage. I was able to solve the problem by collaborating with my teammates and pondering on it.
Task 3: Exported the scraped data to a CSV file.
- Task 3 Hurdles: I was able to complete this task without any notable hurdles.