Scraping and Sourcing Data with Python

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The ability to locate and acquire important data is a valuable skill for doing data analysis and data science.

In this class, we will:

• Explore many sources and repositories for valuable data acquisition such as open government and university datasets
• Explore popular social APIs (e.g., Facebook, Spotify, Twitter) and domain-specific APIs (e.g., healthcare, news, science and math) that store a wealth of data
• Discuss methods to query web servers, and request and parse data to extract the information you need
• Explore scraping various types of data from websites and how to read and extract text from documents (e.g., PDF, Word) along with methods to clean and store sourced and scraped data