An Introduction to Web Mining: with Applications in R

URI
Version
Published
Date Issued
2025-08-07
Type
Book
Language
English
Publisher DOI
Journal or Serie
Use R!
ISSN
2197-5736
Publisher URL
Organization
Publisher
Springer
Submitter
Matter, Ulrich
Citation apa
An Introduction to Web Mining: with Applications in R. (2025). In Use R! Springer. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/46356
Note
Drawing on many years of teaching graduate courses on Web Mining and on numerous large-scale research projects in web mining contexts, the author provides clear explanations of key web technologies combined with hands-on R tutorials.

- Offers a gentle and goal-oriented introduction to web technology basics and web mining concepts
- Includes step-by-step R walkthroughs — from first scrape to cloud-scale crawlers
- Provides ethical, scientific, and legal perspectives for responsible, reproducible web mining