Automated data collection with R:

By:

Munzert, Simon

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: West Sussex: Wiley, 2014Description: xxii, 452pISBN:

9781118834817

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DDC classification:

006.312 MUN

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	IIM Kashipur	006.312 MUN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		7305

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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