How to use web scraping for social science : sampling and generalizability /

With people spending more of their lives online, the internet offers a vast repository of data about social life. In this guide, students will learn about web scraping and its application in social research. Web scraping is a powerful set of techniques for obtaining such data in usefully structured...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Besse, James W. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : SAGE Publications, Ltd., 2022.
Series:	SAGE research methods: doing research online
Subjects:	Social sciences > Research > Methodology. Quantitative research. Sciences sociales > Recherche > Méthodologie. Recherche quantitative. Quantitative research Social sciences > Research > Methodology
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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