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.
