Acquiring data from the internet in R

Date: Friday, 2 December, 2022.
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Location: Hybrid; in person at Burnside Hall room 1104 (11th floor) and online via zoom
Instructor: Tim Elrick, Faculty Lecturer in the Faculty of Science.

Overview: The internet is full of data that you can use for your analysis. As part of our data life cycle series, we will introduce you to efficiently retrieve data from the internet. We will look into downloading files, using APIs, web-scraping, and downloading feeds.

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to
   > use an API
   > understand ethical web-scraping (i.e. how to download data from a website)
   > understand how to work with RSS feeds

Prerequisites:
      · Introductory knowledge of R, e.g. from McGill's R summer camp, or from our Introduction to programming with R workshop.