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Stop 03 · Python for Data ScienceTopics · 7/9

Working With APIs

Part of the Data Science Roadmap

In short

Using the requests library to pull data directly from a web API — a common way to source real datasets when nothing suitable exists as a static file.

How to learn this

  1. 1Use the requests library to pull data from a free public API.
  2. 2Practice parsing a JSON API response into a Pandas DataFrame.
  3. 3Learn basic API concepts: endpoints, parameters, and authentication keys.

More topics at this stop

Python FundamentalsNumPy for Numerical ComputingPandas for Data ManipulationData Cleaning & WranglingMatplotlib & SeabornJupyter Notebooks & Google ColabVirtual Environments & Package ManagementWriting Clean, Reusable Code

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