TY - BOOK AU - Munzert,Simon AU - Rubba,Christian AU - Meibner,Peter AU - Nyhuis,Dominic TI - Automated data collection with R: a practical guide to Web scraping and text mining SN - 9781118834817 (hardback) U1 - 006.312 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Chichester PB - John Wiley KW - Data mining KW - Automatic data collection systems KW - Social sciences KW - Research KW - Data processing KW - R (Computer program language) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Machine generated contents note: Dedication Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface 1 Introduction-- 2 HTML-- 3 XML and JSON-- 4 XPath-- 5 HTTP-- 6 AJAX-- 7 SQL and Relational Databases-- 8 Regular Expressions and String Functions-- 9 Scraping the Web-- 10 Statistical Text Processing-- 11 Managing Data Projects-- 12 Collaboration Networks in the U.S. Senate-- 13 Parsing Information from Semi-Structured Documents-- 14 Predicting the 2014 Academy Awards using Twitter-- 15 Mapping the Geographic Distribution of Names-- 16 Gathering Data on Mobile Phones-- 17 Analyzing Sentiments of Product Reviews-- References-- General Index-- Package Index-- Function Index N2 - This book provides a unified framework of web scraping and information extraction from text data with R for the social sciences ER -