Bytes & Bites: Web scraping and text analysis with R In-Person
Hello world!
This April session we will have a workshop from researcher, Lab manager, and R whiz Sofia Gil Clavel. Learn how to retrieve data using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), as well as how to analyze it. We will cover scraping web data, cleaning it for analysis, analysing text, and plotting publication ready results!
NOTE: This is aimed at a 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!
About Bytes & Bites
Do you want to meet other researchers, improve your programming skills, or ask questions related to programming? Pick up your laptop and come to Bytes & Bites. At Bytes & Bites anyone is welcome, whether you are a beginner or advanced programmer, whether you write in R or in C++.
And of course, you can't program and work with "Bytes" without any tasty "Bites"!
More information about Bytes & Bites and all materials from previous sessions can be found here: https://ubvu.github.io/bytes-and-bites/
Bytes & Bites is hosted at O2 building 01W08
Check out our upcoming datahack on the 24th of April!
- Date:
- Tuesday, April 14, 2026
- Time:
- 16:00 - 18:00
- Time Zone:
- Central European Time (change)
- Campus:
- OZW gebouw: De Boelelaan 1109 1081 HV Amsterdam
- Audience:
- Bachelor Master PhD Post-docs Researchers Student Teachers
- Categories:
- Information skills
Hi there, I work in the library as the research software engineer. Basically I help researchers and students learn how to program, make tools for people, and answer questions about coding. I used to work as a chef, so I am also happy to ask questions about cooking and food!
If you have questions about the events or are a researcher in need of help with your code then email me at: c.c.greene@vu.nl