Case Study - Web Scraping - Published Books (Google Scholar)

Author: Clint Barnard-El
Email: barnard.clint@yahoo.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintbarnardel/
Dataset: Google Scholar Web Scraping

Introduction

This repository provides the results from an analysis of the most cited published books on African-American History. Black History Month is an annual observance in the United States - held during February - to commemorate the events and celebrate the contributions of those from the African diaspora.

This analysis aims to demonstrate the skills of web scraping, data cleaning, exploratory analysis (EDA), and data visualization.

Applications Used

• RStudio
• Octoparse
• Google Chrome

Language Used

• R

Skills Used

• Web Scraping
• Data Cleaning
• EDA
• Data Visualization (Tableau)

Datasets

The dataset can be found on Kaggle. The web scraping completed on 2/24/24 yielded over 500 results that included articles, books, and PDFs.