Static Web Scraping for Researchers 2nd Session **Free Online Event**

Presented By: Austin Wilkins
Workshop Description

This is for the 2nd session of this workshop.

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.

Topic: Austin Wilkins' Zoom Meeting
Time: Jan 26, 2021 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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.