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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="https://www.daeconomist.com/post/2018-05-23-workshop-web-scraping-cape-town/"> Digital Age Economist on Digital Age Economist</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>Join <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/DataWookie" target="_blank">Andrew Collier</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/UbuntR314" target="_blank">Hanjo Odendaal</a> for a workshop on using R for Web Scraping.</p>
<h2>Who should attend?</h2>
<p>This workshop is aimed at beginner and intermediate R users who want to learn more about using R for data acquisition and management, with a specific focus on web scraping.</p>
<h2>What will you learn?</h2>
<p>You will learn:</p>
<ul>
<li>data manipulation with <code>dplyr</code>, <code>tidyr</code> and <code>purrr</code>;</li>
<li>tools for accessing the DOM;</li>
<li>scraping static sites with <code>rvest</code>;</li>
<li>scraping dynamic sites with <code>RSelenium</code>; and</li>
<li>setting up an automated scraper in the cloud.</li>
</ul>
<p>See <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.daeconomist.com/post/2018-05-23-workshop-web-scraping-cape-town/#programme" target="_blank">programme</a> below for further details.</p>
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<th>Where</th>
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<td><a rel="nofollow" href="https://thinkrise.com/cape-town" target="_blank">Rise</a>, Floor 5, Woodstock Exchange, 66 Albert Road, Woodstock, Cape Town</td>
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<th>When</th>
<td>–</td>
<td>14-15 June 2018</td>
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<th>Who</th>
<td>–</td>
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Andrew Collier<br>
Hanjo Odendaal
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<p>There are just 20 seats available. A 10% discount is available for groups of 4 or more people from a single organisation attending both days.</p>
<p>Email <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:training@exegetic.biz?subject=Web%20Scraping%20Workshop%20(Cape%20Town)%2014-15%20June%202018" target="_blank">training@exegetic.biz</a> if you have any questions about the workshop.</p>
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<h2>Programme</h2>
<h3>Day 1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Motivating Example</li>
<li>R and the tidyverse
<ul>
<li>Vectors, Lists and Data Frames</li>
<li>Loading data from a file</li>
<li>Manipulating Data Frames with <code>dplyr</code></li>
<li>Pivoting with <code>tidyr</code></li>
<li>Functional programming with <code>purrr</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Introduction to scraping
<ul>
<li>Ethics</li>
<li>DOM</li>
<li>Developer Tools</li>
<li>CSS and XPath</li>
<li><code>robots.txt</code> and site map</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Scraping a static site with <code>rvest</code>
<ul>
<li>What happens under the hood</li>
<li>What the hell is <code>curl</code>?</li>
<li>Assisted Assignment: Movie information from IMDB</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Day 2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Case Study: Investigating drug tests using <code>rvest</code></li>
<li>Interacting with APIs
<ul>
<li>Using XHR to find an API</li>
<li>Building wrappers around APIs</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Scraping a dynamic site with <code>RSelenium</code>
<ul>
<li>Why <code>RSelenium</code> is needed</li>
<li>Navigation around web-pages</li>
<li>Combining <code>RSelenium</code> with <code>rvest</code></li>
<li>Useful JavaScript tools</li>
<li>Case Study</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Deploying a Scraper in the Cloud
<ul>
<li>Launching and connecting to an EC2 instance</li>
<li>Headless browsers</li>
<li>Automation with cron</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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