Week 8: Collecting Data with APIs
Content for the week of March 3, 2026
Assignments Due
- Week 8 Coding Challenges
- First self-assessment reflection is due
Programming Materials
Discussion Reading
Discussant: Sam
- Lazer, D., & Radford, J. (2017). Data ex Machina: Introduction to Big Data. Annual Review of Sociology, 43(1), 19–39.
Agenda
- Introduce the requests library
- Discuss the main kinds of online data gathering: downloading, scraping, and APIs
- Today’s slides