Collecting Data from the Web
Date:
15/10/2018 - 15/01/2019
Organised by:
SAGE Publishing
Presenter:
Dr. Claudia von Vacano
Level:
Intermediate (some prior knowledge)
Contact:
Lucy Golding lucy.golding@sagepub.co.uk
Venue: Online
Description:
You will learn how to extract data from web resources appropriate to your research question. Special attention will be given to how to obtain permission from hosts, and proper etiquette when using APIs and scraping.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain in simple terms how the internet works.
- Define and use an API to collect data from the web.
- Explain the difference between using an API and web scraping.
- Recognize potential legal issues surrounding web scraping.
- Use a programming language to collect web data.
Cost:
80+VAT
Website and registration:
Region:
International
Keywords:
Data Collection, Data Quality and Data Management , Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Actor Network Theory, Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Social Network Analysis, R, Python, programming
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Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis
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Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis
Social Network Analysis