Data Wrangling Showcase
Wrangling with Python
Re-usable Python scripts using various methods to wrangle data; Includes working with APIs, web scraping, web crawling.
Web Scraping
Open and get response from a web page. Use Beautiful Soup to scrape info from Take Action articles. Interact with web page using Selenium.
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Web Spider
Build a web spider using scrapy.
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API Calls
Twitter API Pull
Create a Twitter API Key and Access Token. Execute multiple queries at a time from Twitter’s REST API. Do a data pull from Twitter’s Streaming API.
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College Scorecard
Retrieves college scorecard data from Data.gov API (https://collegescorecard.ed.gov). Parses JSON response into Python dictionary. Exports API response in readable format to file.
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