An Introduction to Web Mining

with Applications in R

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