Event Details
Event Title Extracting Data from the Web: Web Scraping Using R (Online)
Location Online via Zoom
Sponsor H.W. Odum Institute
Date/Time 11/04/2025 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Event Price
Cutoff Date 11/02/2025 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 3 hour 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.

This course will count as 3.0 CSS short course hours.