Open Tech Calendar

Webscraping and making presentations in R

Webscraping in R: a short walk through rvest, selenium and purrr
Rich Louden, Data Scientist, Wilko

Having data to work on is key for any analysis, and with a large amount of data being held on the web a key skill is being able to obtain this data. As such, this talk will focus on a quick walkthrough of some of the webscraping packages and techniques in r, along side the use of some key tidyverse functions to help speed up and smooth the process.

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Presentations in R using the Xaringan package
Anna Krystalli, Research Software Engineering, University of Sheffield

Walkthrough of making presentations using Rmarkdown and the Xaringan package.

https://www.meetup.com/SheffieldR-Sheffield-R-Users-Group/events/261046613/

https://www.meetup.com/SheffieldR-Sheffield-R-Users-Group/events/261046613/

Tue 7th May 2019 5:30pm (Europe/London)

Tue 7th May 2019 7:30pm (Europe/London)

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