Welcome to Web Scraping.

This site contains links to the slides for the course Web Scraping: Digital Data Collection for the Humanities and Social Sciences, conducted in Hilary Term 2014 at the University of Cambridge, hosted by the Social Sciences' Research Methods Centre (SSRMC), and taught by Rolf Fredheim

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The slides for the 2015 version of the course will be posted here

Lectures 2015

Session 1: Introduction to Digital Data Collection

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Session 2: Digging Deeper

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Session 2: Programming Extras

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Session 3: Data collection, the hard way

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Slides from 2014

The course is being be re-written for 2014/15, and will include an introductory session on working with text in R. The slides below are provided for reference, and will be updated or replaced in due course

Session 1: Introduction to Web Scraping

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Session 2: Digging deeper

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Session 3: Scaling up

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Session 4: Working with APIs

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