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I recently moved to a new city - Munich! I live in a very calm area, but soon realized that the neighborhood is not really the best when it comes to eating outside. So, I decided to try to analyze review data from the web to find out which area is most compelling for me and other foodies. I scraped online reviews, cleaned the data and then visualized it on a map, showing the average rating of restaurants in different areas in Munich.

Web Scraping is the automated process of extracting data from websites. This is commonly done by retrieving the HTML code of a website through a request and then extracting the information hidden in the HTML code programmatically. This is especially useful when there is no convenient API available to you! There has been a lot of discussion going on about the legality and ethics of Web Scraping, which I do not want to get into in this article. You can find a lot of information on this online.