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Bytes & Bites: Web scraping and text analysis with R

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Hello world! This April session we will have a workshop from researcher, Lab manager, and R whizz Sofia Gil Clavel. Learn how to retrieve data using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), as well as how to analyse it.

We will cover scraping web data, cleaning it for analysis, analysing text, and plotting publication ready results.

NOTE: This workshop is aimed at levels 2-3, beginner+ to intermediate level programmer, refer to our level system for more info. All are welcome to join, but those at level 1 might find some unfamiliar terms or techniques.

Requirements

Participants need to:

· Bring their own laptops.

· Have R and Rstudio installed.

· Have experience using the tidyverse packages. 

· Have already required their Guardian developer token via this webpage.

All the necessary to follow this session will be available at this GitHub repository 24 hours before the workshop.   

Pizza will be served as always!

Additional information on Bytes & Bites can be found on the register page.

About Bytes & Bites: Web scraping and text analysis with R

Starting date

  • 14 April 2026

Time

  • 16:00 - 18:00

Location

  • O|2 Lab building, 01W08

Address

  • De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam

Organised by

  • University Library

Language

  • English

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