Editing Intro to Programming and Data Science (Summer 2020) (section)

== Day 8: Collecting Data with APIs (May 28) ==

'''Assignment Due:'''
* Turn in Day 7 Coding Challenges
* Before class make sure you've installed tweepy ([https://youtu.be/TASX3evcgG4 video instructions)]

'''Readings:'''
* Kieran Healy and James Moody (2014). “[https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-071312-145551 Data Visualization in Sociology].” American Review of Sociology. 40: 105-28.
** Discussant: Jessie

'''Agenda:'''
* Introduce the [https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/ requests] library
* Discuss the main kinds of online data gathering: downloading, scraping, and APIs.
* [https://github.com/jdfoote/Intro-to-Programming-and-Data-Science/raw/summer2020/day_8/day_8.ipynb Intro to APIs Notebook]
* [https://jeremydfoote.com/teaching/2020-summer/intro_to_programming/day_8.html Today's slides]

'''Coding challenges:'''
* [[Intro to Programming and Data Science (Summer 2020)/Day 8 Coding Challenges|Day 8 Coding Challenges]].
* (Optional) [https://learn.datacamp.com/courses/introduction-to-data-science-in-python DataCamp: Intro to Data Science] and/or [https://learn.datacamp.com/courses/intermediate-python Intermediate Python]