Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining
by Simon Munzert, Christian Rubba, Peter Meissner, Dominic NyhuisView All Available Formats & Editions
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 /li>/li>
Overview
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.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9781118834817
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication date:
- 01/20/2015
- Pages:
- 480
- Sales rank:
- 401,031
- Product dimensions:
- 6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.20(d)
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