Data Scraping, Network Analysis and Visualization
Speakers: Aurélien Goutsmedt
 

Abstract: This session aims to introduce you to web scraping techniques and how to build and visualize networks. The session will firstly explore what web scraping is, the different ‘R’ tools involved, and offer some practical examples. The second section will then introduce the basic notions of networks (two-mode, directed/undirected, clustering etc), present the main social network analysis tools in ‘R’, and illustrate this through an example using the database built in the first section. Finally, an overview of the basic visualizations of a network will be conducted. Feel free to bring your questions and reflections on the possibilities of how scraping and networks could be incorporated into your future research. This session is “hands-on”: you should install R and Rstudio (see how to do it here) if you want to practice during the session

Speaker Bio: Aurélien Goutsmedt is a historian of economics and a political economist at UC Louvain, ISPOLE. He works on the history of economic ideas, expertise and policies (notably central banks' policies) since the 1970s. He also develops quantitative tools and software to support his research.

Time: 12.15 pm Sandwich Lunch / 12.45 – 14.00 Workshop

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