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Extracting Data from the Web: Web Scraping Using R
September 5, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
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This course will introduce you to extracting structured data from web pages, also known as “scraping” the pages. We will use the R programming language. The first portion of the course will introduce basic HTML, CSS selectors, Developer Tools in Google Chrome, and the R packages used for web scraping. The second portion will consist of a hands-on exercise scraping data from a real web page.