Webscraping the WSJ

There are many newspapers available in the New York City area that cater to different segments of the population. This project focuses on the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), an international newspaper with a high circulation in the New York area. For this project, I scraped details of articles over a three-week period in order to analyze some basic metrics of the newspaper as well as some of the topics that the WSJ focuses on. In total, the project encompassed a total of 4,126 articles from three consecutive weeks in August 2016. As a result of collecting these metrics, several interesting findings emerged.