There’s a really interesting site usesthis.com AKA “The Setup” which interviews people and lists all of the gear that they use, including software. I found out that they have an API, (documented here) and I wanted to use my new API skills in Python to test it out! This one returns JSON unlike the NPR… Continue reading The Setup (usesthis.com) API
Category: #SoDS
Summer of Data Science
May 2015 #SoDS Storify
I wanted to capture the participation in the #SoDS (Summer of Data Science) hashtag somehow, so I decided to create a monthly Storify to keep up with all of your great tweets! [View the story “#SoDS May 2015” on Storify]
Monday Silliness
OK so I’m tired enough to be a little silly right now, and I think I’m finally feeling bold enough to share my parody songs inspired by these twitter exchanges: @matt_slotnick @dpatil haha i've said b4 that O'Jays "for the love of money" but w/"data data data…DATA" runs thru my head b4 projects :) —… Continue reading Monday Silliness
IPython, Requests, lxml, and the NPR API
Last week, I decided to learn how to use python to get data from an API. I started with the Codecademy “Introduction to APIs in Python” course, which got me oriented to how requests work, and in the subsequent NPR API lesson, specifically how the NPR stories API works. Certain parts of the course assumed… Continue reading IPython, Requests, lxml, and the NPR API
Summer of Data Science 2015
I was daydreaming about all of the data science learning I’m going to do this summer, now that I’m done with grad school (M.Eng. in Systems Engineering, yay!) – I’m so excited to get to choose what to work on, and not have homework deadlines in the middle of the work-week! I had a thought… Continue reading Summer of Data Science 2015