Exploratory Data Analysis APIs

About

Understand what an API is, and how to use it to gather data.

Learning Objectives

You will be able to:

Explain what an application programming interface (API) is.
Explain the very basics of HTTP and how it’s used to get data from the web.
Use the requests library to submit HTTP requests from Python.
Use a free Python API to access data.
Evaluate API documentation.

Content

Topic	About
Full Lesson Deck	A walkthrough of what APIs are and how to use them
02 APIs marketing strategy notebook	A demonstration of how to get data from APIs, and some practice too
03 APIs financial markets notebook	An exercuse to practice gathering data from APIs and saving them to `pandas` `DataFrames`
04 Crimes Minilab notebook	An optional additional exercise to help practice analytical skillls using APIs and `pandas`

Prerequisites

Interpret and use Python dictionaries
Build pandas DataFrames from dictionaries
Perform simple data manipulation on pandas objects
Build for and while loops in Python
Use pip install for package management

References

📖 Reference Materials

Important note

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