Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining

Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining

<p><b>A hands on guide to web scraping and text mining for both beginners and experienced users of R</b></p> <ul> <li>Introduces fundamental concepts of the main architecture of the web and databases and covers HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, SQL.</li> <li>Provides basic techniques to query web documents and data sets (XPath and regular expressions).</li> <li>An extensive set of exercises are presented to guide the reader through each technique.</li> <li>Explores both supervised and unsupervised techniques as well as advanced techniques such as data scraping and text management.</li> <li>Case studies are featured throughout along with examples for each technique presented.</li> <li>R code and solutions to exercises featured in the book are provided on a supporting website.</li> </ul>