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Event Title	Extracting Data from the Web: Web Scraping Using R (Online)
Location	Online (ZOOM)
Sponsor	H.W. Odum Institute
Date/Time	04/05/2022 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Event Price
Cutoff Date	04/01/2022 Must register before this date

For more information, contact the event administrator: Jill Stevens jill_stevens@unc.edu

Event Presenters

Name	Title
Matthew Wigginton Bhagat-Conway	PhD	Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and a consultant in the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science

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This one day course will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

Sometimes you need to analyze data that is only available as a web page. 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. After this course, you should be able to scrape data from most web pages you encounter in your research.