Extracting Data from the Web: Web Scraping Using R

This course will introduce participants to extracting structured data from web pages, also known as “scraping” the pages, using 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. After this course, participants should be able to scrape data from most web pages they encounter in their research.

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