Week 9: Collecting Data with APIs (continued)
Content for the week of March 10, 2026
Assignments Due
- Week 9 Coding Challenges
- Project Planning Document Due
Programming Materials
- Python for Everybody, Chapter 13
Discussion Reading
Discussant: Rushdah
- Kieran Healy and James Moody (2014). “Data Visualization in Sociology.” American Review of Sociology. 40: 105-28.
Agenda
- A workflow for doing work with APIs
- Ethics of digital trace data
- Today’s slides
Additional Resources
- If you are interested in doing web scraping, check out this incredible mini-course on the topic. It is all done with Jupyter Notebooks and you have all of the prerequisite knowledge to understand it.
- Very brief lecture on web scraping from Spring 2020