Static Web Scraping for Researchers **Free Online Event**

Presented By: Austin Wilkins
Workshop Description
Part one of this workshop will cover the basics surrounding scraping data from static webpages for research purposes. This will cover finding and selecting data, formatting a simple web scrape in R using the Rvest library.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7139079746?pwd=OTZ6dGZmeHRvK29tNVV6dUE2N3JTdz09

Meeting ID: 713 907 9746
Passcode: 6EpAVD

Learning Objectives (3 max):
• Learn to use R and Rvest to scrape static web pages.
• Understand how data is presented in HTML and how it can be gathered.
• Learn and understand the potential for gathering data using R.