teaching_data_collection

Learn how to do data collection putting a couple of things into consideration. Such as:

1. Tidy data principles including short and long dataframes.
2. Error handling while calling APIs.
3. Keeping your secrets safe with OS module.
4. Retrying API request incase of failure.

You will learn how to query the newsAPI and scrape information from Wikipedia. These are common applications of collecting data in data science. NB: You'll need an API key for the newsAPI. Here we go!!!

Check out the folders for more information

Getting Data off an API
Webscraping