Instruction While tempting, scraping data from websites is problematic. After at

Instruction
While tempting, scraping data from websites is problematic.
After attending a session on web scraping at the 2016 NICAR conference, Sophie Chou wrote an enlightening piece (Links to an external site.) on the technical (and ethical) challenges surrounding web scraping.
Nearly all roads lead to a decision not to scrape in Ms. Chou’s POV.
Image Source: Sophie Chou – To scrape or not to scrape: technical and ethical challenges of collecting data off the web (Links to an external site.)
This individual assignment has four components:
Describe a situation in which scraping data from the web may be justified.
Illustrate this situation with a specific example.
You are not expected to draw a decision tree diagram as shown above.
Discuss at least two risks associated with scraping data in this situation.
Describe steps an analyst could take to mitigate those risks.
Highly Recommended Reading
In the highly recommended textbook, Digital Marketing Analytics: In Theory and In Practice, Part 4, Lesson 3: “Collecting Data, Data Everywhere” explores various data collection techniques, including web scraping.
Word Limit
This write-up should not exceed 300 words.