In this Nylon Calculus 101 post, Savvas Tjortjoglou introduces web scraping with Python to grab data for all draftees from the 1966 to 2014 NBA drafts.

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He uses a Python script to interface with the Pachube API, which is fed to his Netduino board. A servo motor then changes the position of the dial based on the feed’s data.

However, traditional web scraping tools like BeautifulSoup and Scrapy often require coding knowledge or complex setups, making them inaccessible to many marketers.