Web Scraping: Scaling up Digital Data Collection

The latest slides from web scraping through R: Web scraping for the humanities and social sciences

Slides from the first session here

Slides from the second session here


Slides from the fourth and final session here


This week we look in greater detail at scaling up digital data-collection: coercing scraper output into dataframes, how to download files (along with a cursory look at the state of IP law), cover basic text-manipulation in R, and take a first look at working with the APIs (share counts on Facebook).

Download the .Rpres file to use in Rstudio here

A regular R script with code-snippets only can be accessed here

UPDATE March 2015:
New 2015 version of slides here
PDFs of slides available here