Web scrape and analyse data about dresses on the Coast website

Overview

There are two parts to this project:

• Web scrape information about dresses, their colour, price and availability from the Coast website
• Analyse the results

How do I use the project?

Requirements/Pre-requisites

• For web scraping (Web scraping Coast website.py): Python 3.4 with libraries bs4, urllib.request and pandas
• For analysing results (Analyse Coast dresses.R): RStudio (version 0.99.451) with libraries ggplot2 and reshape2

Project Structure

First run Web scraping Coast website.py to extract the data from the website.

If desired, add this data to the bottom of Coast_dresses_all.csv with the month it was scraped included.

Finally, run Analyse Coast dresses.R to see patterns in the dresses on this website. For example:

• Lowest stock levels are in dress sizes 6 and 14-18
• Pink dresses were popular in February 2016

Data

Coast_dresses_all.csv shows the data scraped so far