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

Munzert, Simon; Rubba, Christian; Meißner, Peter; Nyhuis, Dominic

ISBN 10: 111883481X / ISBN 13: 9781118834817

Published by Wiley, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Automated Data Collection with R : A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 111883481X
• ISBN 13: 9781118834817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

A hands on guide to web scraping and text mining for both beginners and experienced users of R

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

About the Author

Simon Munzert is the author of Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining, published by Wiley.

Christian Rubba is the author of Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining, published by Wiley.

Peter Meißner is the author of Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining, published by Wiley.

Dominic Nyhuis is the author of Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining, published by Wiley.