This week, we're using AI to help us scrape data from the web! Instead of our usual instructor-led format, we'll start by exploring how the web actually works — looking at the sites we visit and how traffic moves between our browsers and servers. From there, we'll review traditional web scraping workflows before diving into
From May 8 to 10, 2026, Columbia University's Brown Institute hosts Media Party NYC, bringing together 300 journalists, technologists, researchers, and entrepreneurs from around the world to take on the forces reshaping news: AI-driven workflows, shifting audience behavior, and the creators and platforms now mediating how people find information. We’re in a post-search era. A
