Schedule and Course Material
The course runs for a duration of seven weeks. Each week consists of an energizing kickstarter, material for self-study, a tutorial, and exercises/activities. Gradually, you will develop your coding skills, enabling you to work productively on your team project.
Click on each course week for details.
- Please always bring a laptop to class. Lectures and tutorials are not scheduled in computer rooms, but you require a computer to follow the classes. Remember to bring a charger.
- The course material is based on two papers: Boegershausen et al. (2022), “Fields of Gold: Scraping Web Data for Marketing Insight”, and Guyt et al. (2024), “Unlocking the Potential of Web Scraping for Retailing Research”. Study the papers and apply learnings throughout the course. Supplementary information is available at a companion website and music-to-scrape.org.
| Course week | Date | Time | Location | Content |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 0 | Preparation before the course starts | |||
| Week 1 | Wed 29 Jan | 10.45-14.30 | On campus | Getting started with Python & web data |
| Week 2 | Tue 4 Feb | 08.45-10.30 | On campus | Tutorial: Web scraping for dummies |
| 10.30-12.30 | On campus | Team coaching #1 | ||
| Week 3 | Tue 11 Feb | 08.45-10.30 | On campus | Tutorial: Web scraping 101 |
| 10.45-12.30 | On campus | Team coaching #2 | ||
| Week 4 | Tue 18 Feb | 08.45-10.30 | On campus | Tutorial: APIs 101 |
| 10.45-12.30 | On campus | Team coaching #3 | ||
| Week 5 | Tue 25 Feb | 08.45-10.30 | On campus | Presentations for Team coaching #3 |
| 10.45-12.30 | On campus | Team coaching #4 | ||
| Week 6 | Wed 12 Mar | 12:45-14:30 | Online | Team coaching #5 |
| Week 7 | Tue 18 Mar | 10.45-12.30 | On campus | Course summary and exam preparation |
| Wed 19 Mar | 15.45-17.30 | On campus | Team coaching #6 |
Tips
- We recommend you view the schedule (and associated rooms) in Tilburg University’s MyTimetable.
- Login credentials for the live streams will be made available on the Canvas page of this course for students from Tilburg University, and via email to remaining students.
- If recordings are made, you will find them on the Canvas page of the course, shared with students enrolled at Tilburg University. Some videos may also be posted on Hannes’ YouTube channel. Subscribe to it now to stay up-to-date!
- If code is shared, you will typically find it on Hannes’ GitHub Gists.