Web scraping with R

Workshop details
This intro to web scraping will teach you how to use the rvest package to scrape data from Wikipedia. We will be working with data about celebrity/notable deaths since 1990 to analyse the “27 Club” phenomenon.

Date and time: June 29, 2022 at 6:00pm
Webinar link: RSVP to view the link (password follows `?pwd=` in the link)
If you have trouble getting into the meeting, please message Jasmine

See you there!

Yuka, Jasmine and Melissa

IMPORTANT**

1. Have your computer and a steady internet connection ready
2. If this is your first R-Ladies event, please take a moment to review our R-Ladies Global code of conduct: https://github.com/rladies/.github/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
3. Who is allowed to attend the workshop?
   Everyone is welcome to join us at our events and to be a part of our mission to empower gender minorities with the skills and knowledge to code in one of the top programming languages in data science, which is R.

To fulfill this mission we do ask participants to respect a focus on the encouragement and support for women and non-binary people during our events.