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Life & fun · May 26, 2018

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I built a scraper and ended up with a full report on prostitution in UK

I built a scraper and ended up with a full report on prostitution in UK launched on May 26, 2018 with 12 votes, #1,014 of 2,985 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

In plain words

This is a Jupyter notebook viewer that displays an analysis of prostitution data in the UK. The creator originally built a web scraper for data collection and developed it into a comprehensive report. The tool allows users to view and interact with the notebook through a web browser without needing to install Jupyter locally. It serves researchers, data analysts, and anyone interested in exploring the dataset and findings about sex work in the United Kingdom.

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