Workshop: Web Scraping with R with Fabian Gülzau

(14.05.2019) On Friday, May 7, Fabian Gülzau will give a short workshop in which he introduces students to the technique of webscraping with R. Participants will learn a general scheme that can be applied to scrape information from the web. First, the workshop provides a brief introduction to the underlying structure of the modern web. Second, after acquiring this knowledge, we will go through the individual steps that are necessary to retrieve information from a website.

Finally, we will discuss legal requirements and ethics of webscraping. Throughout the workshop, several hands-on examples will be used. In this way, the participants are equipped with the necessary knowledge to set up their own webscraping projects.

Fabian Gülzau is a sociologist in the department of social sciences at Humboldt University and at the collaborative research centre SFB 1265 „Re-figuration of spaces“. His research interests include social inequality, sociology of the family, sociology of migration, and computational social science: https://fguelzau.rbind.io/

The workshop takes place on Friday, May 17, from 9.00-12.30 am as part of the project seminar "Social Media Hypes" by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Annie Waldherr. A few places are available for those who are interested in taking part. If you are interested, please send an e-mail to: annie.waldherr@uni-muenster.de

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