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The latest slides from web scraping through R: Web scraping for the humanities and social sciencesWant to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
Slides from the first session here
Slides from the second 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).
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