Title: Discussion
Course: Advanced Data Science: A Graduate Course > Section: Module 1: Acquisition and the reproducible workflow

Consider a scenario from your own field where the same figure could be acquired either through an organization’s public API or by scraping the rendered web page behind it. Argue which route you would take and why, grounding your position in robots.txt, rate limits, Terms of Service, and the reproducibility and provenance costs of each choice. Post your initial position by Wednesday, then reply substantively to two peers, ideally at least one whose recommended route differs from yours, engaging their specific reasoning rather than restating your own. The instructor responds in each thread.