CurriculumWeek 03 · Data and the outside world
Week 03 · starts Jun 01
Data and the outside world
The week the course earns its title — analyzing real data, calling a real API.
Upcoming
Sessions
- 03.01CSVs and a friendly intro to pandas~30 min readOpen →What a CSV is. Reading one with the standard library, then with pandas.
head()and column access.~30 min readOpen → - 03.02Filtering, sorting, grouping~28 min readOpen →Boolean filtering,
sort_values,value_counts,mean, and a light touch ofgroupby.~28 min readOpen → - 03.03Calling an API~30 min readOpen →What an API actually is. The
requestslibrary. A GET request, parsing JSON, and a little error handling for the network.~30 min readOpen →
Assignment for this week
Research data summary tool
Either summarize a CSV with pandas, or call a public API, save it to CSV, and print three useful insights.
Due Sun, Jun 07 · 9:00 pm
Read brief →in 3 weeks