Community Data Science Course (Spring 2023)/Week 6 coding challenges

This week there are three sets of questions. To answer to the first two sets of questions, you'll want to work from the notebooks I talked through in class during the ../Week 6 lecture. The good news is that answering these will mostly involve modifying or adding small amounts of code (maybe even code we've done in previous assignments!) to those notebooks.

Feel free to use spreadsheets for any part of this that you can but be sure to share links to the spreadsheets in the same way you've been doing.

Also, split your work up into multiple notebooks but name them all in a clear and consistent way. For example, these might be good names that keep things organized:

mako-01-mediawiki_1.ipynb mako-02-mediawiki_2.ipynb mako-03-yelp_1.ipynb mako-05-final_project.ipynb

This approach will also be very helpful when you upload your assignment to github!

#1 MediaWiki API
Identify a movie, television, video game, or other media property that has both (a) 5 or more related articles on Wikipedia and (b) 5 or more other articles on the same topic on a Fandom.com website. Any large entertainment franchise will definitely work but feel free to get creative! For example, you might choose 5 Wikipedia articles about the anime Naruto and 5 articles (pages) from the naruto.fandom.com site. You may notice that fandom.com has a top layer with staff-produced video content, but once you dig down into a particular fandom's wiki, you'll start to see a more familiar wiki style page. For example, compare the fandom.com page about the SpongeBob pilot episode 'Help Wanted' and the Wikipedia page about the same pilot episode.


 * 1) First modify the code from first sets of notebooks I used in the ../Week 6 lecture to download data (and metadata) about revisions to the 5 articles you chose from Wikipedia. Be ready to share:
 * 2) (i) what proportion of those edits were made by users without accounts ("anon"),
 * 3) (ii) what proportion of those edits were marked as "minor", and
 * 4) (iii) make and share a visualization of the total number of edits across those 5 articles over time (I didn't do this in class but I made the TSV file would allow this).
 * 5) Now grab data for the 5 articles you chose from the Fandom.com wiki you identified and grab revision/edit data from there. (Hint: Your wikipedia work will give you lots of clues here: for example, the fandom API endpoint for The Wire is https://thewire.fandom.com/api.php and the Fandom API, as I said in class, is the same as the Wikipedia API). Produce answers to the same three questions (i, ii, and iii) above but using this dataset.
 * 6) Finally, choose either your Wikipedia or Fandom datasets as the data source for a visualization that shows how each of those articles have grown in length (as measured in characters or "bytes") over time. (Hint: you'll need to return "size" as one of the revision properties  if you are not doing it already.)

#2 Yelp API

 * 1) Get set up on the Yelp Fusion API. I've put some details on how to do that on the page on a Yelp Authentication setup page which will likely be very useful!
 * 2) Install the   module which is online: there's both a documentation page on the the Python Package Index (PyPI) website and a Github page with some documentation. As I said in class, you can either do this by (a) opening a terminal on your system and running   or you can try running   in your Jupyter notebook. Reach on out teams or in open lab sessions if you run into trouble.
 * 3) Create a new   file (e.g., I called mine  ) in the same directory as your Yelp notebooks are using and add your API key to it. Then use the   command to use your API key in a notebook without having the key itself visible in the notebook!
 * 4) Once you've done this, use your yelp data collection notebook to grab a list of 50 businesses of any kind (your choice!), in any city (again, your choice!) using Yelp and the   module. This should be easy if you modify the notebook from the ../Week 6 lecture.
 * 5) Once you have done this, add some code so that you save the "raw" JSON output to a   or   file (whichever is appropriate).
 * 6) Now create a second notebook that opens up that file, reads the data, and outputs a TSV file with the the name of the business, the average rating, and at least three other pieces or metadata that are available in the Yelp API.

#3 Progress on your final project
Answer these questions using markdown cells in a notebook. Check out the notes I left about this in the ../Week 5 coding challenges (the third paragraph) or think back to Kaylea's comments during the Week 6 assignment recap video.

Let us know:


 * 1) What is your proposed unit of analysis? In other words, if/when you end up building something like a spreadsheet, what are rows going to represent?
 * 2) What specific measures associated with each unit do you want to collect? In other words, what are the columns in the spreadsheet going to be?
 * 3) Tell us what you've learned about the API:
 * 4) Are you going to be able to get the data you want with one API call or many? If more than one, how many?
 * 5) If it's more than one call, how will you know when you have collected all your data?
 * 6) Make one API call and save the output to your desk in either a   or   file. Be sure to share the code you used to do this. Be sure not to include any API keys in your notebook!
 * 7) How big is the JSON file that you saved on your disk (i.e., in bytes or kilobytes)? If it is not your full dataset, what is your estimate for how much larger the full dataset will be? How big will the total dataset be? Is that a problem?