Materials

Book Code and Data

You can download the zipped archive of all the book materials from here (last updated: 2015-01-27). You can also clone the book materials directory from our GitHub repository.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part 1: A Primer on Web and Data Technologies

Chapter 2: HTML
Chapter 3: XML and JSON
Chapter 4: XPath
Chapter 5: HTTP
Chapter 6: AJAX
Chapter 7: SQL and Relational Databases
Chapter 8: Regular Expressions and String Functions

Part 2: A Practical Toolbox for Web Scraping and Text Mining

Chapter 9: Scraping the Web
Chapter 10: Statistical Text Processing
Chapter 11: Managing Data Projects

Part 3: A Bag of Case Studies

Chapter 12: Collaboration Networks in the U.S. Senate
Chapter 13: Parsing Information from Semi-Structured Documents
Chapter 14: Predicting the 2014 Academy Awards using Twitter
Chapter 15: Mapping the Geographic Distribution of Names
Chapter 16: Gathering Data on Mobile Phones
Chapter 17: Analyzing Sentiments of Product Reviews

Solutions to Excercises

You can find solutions to uneven numbered excercises from the problem sections here.

Errata & Code Updates

We maintain a list of book errata (HTML, PDF [last updated: 2017-03-21]). In order to ensure future readers' benefit from the book, we maintain the book code regularly to deal with the problem of changing internet pages. These code updates can also be found in the errata list. If you stumble upon any type of error or non-working piece of code, please let us know by writing an email.