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 | Thu 1 Feb | 12.45-16.30 | On campus | Getting started with Python & web data |
| Week 2 | Wed 7 Feb | 08.45-10.30 | On campus | Tutorial: Web scraping for dummies |
| Wed 7 Sep | 10.45-12.30 | On campus | Team coaching #1 | |
| Week 3 | Wed 21 Feb | 08.45-10.30 | On campus | Tutorial: Web scraping 101 |
| 10.45-12.30 | On campus | Team coaching #2 | ||
| Week 4 | Wed 28 Feb | 08.45-10.30 | On campus | Tutorial: APIs 101 |
| 10.45-12.30 | On campus | Team coaching #3 | ||
| Week 5 | Wed 6 Mar | 08.45-10.30 | On campus | Presentations for Team coaching #3 |
| 10.45-12.30 | On campus | Team coaching #4 | ||
| Week 6 | Thu 14 Mar | 14:45-16:30 | Online | Team coaching #5 |
| Week 7 | Tue 19 Mar | 08.45-10.30 | On campus | Course summary and exam preparation |
| Thu 21 Mar | 14.45-16.30 | Online | 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.