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datadave / GADS9-NYC-Spring2014-Students

Student repo for Spring 2014 Data Science Course at GA NYC
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API Class? #75

Closed lelgohary closed 10 years ago

lelgohary commented 10 years ago

Hi there, Since Dave has been prompting us to use pulse to ask questions, I was wondering if we could either have an extra class, or some good resources to learn how to use API's a bit better. It would be great to have that in our arsenal, so we can work on trying out some of the things we'll be learning in class on not so easily available datasets. Thanks!

jrcarli commented 10 years ago

@lelgohary - This is a good topic. My experience has shown that every API is slightly different and ultimately means reading an API's documentation is required. I'd be happy to provide help and/or meet outside of class with folks interested in specific APIs. Perhaps @datadave or @podopie have some additional thoughts on the matter.

podopie commented 10 years ago

@lelgohary - As we start talking more about machine learning algorithms and getting to handle more data sets, there will be a couple times where we do more data curation straight from say an API (with a prepared script) or scraping from a website (with a prepared script) so we can do a little more work around how these are useful to us, but as per @jrcarli, every API is slightly different in what's accessible, and it will always be best to just read API documentation and go through a trial and error process.