Digital Data Collection course

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Another year, another web scraping course. Taught through SSRMC at the University of Cambridge. Below are slides from all three sessions.

In the course I tried to achieve the following:
– Show how to connect R to resources online
– Use loops and functions to iteratively access online content
– How to work with APIs
– How to harvest data manually using Xpath expressions.

What’s new?
– Many more examples and practice tasks
– Updated API usage
– Some bug fixes (and probably many new bugs introduced)




Slides from last year’s course:
session one: the basics
session two: digging deeper
session three: scaling up
session four: APIs








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