Introduction to APIs for Social Scientists

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dc.contributor.authorMarahrens, Helge-Johannes
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-04T15:20:09Z
dc.date.available2019-02-04T15:20:09Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-01
dc.descriptionHelge-Johannes Marahrens is a third-year doctoral student in the department of Sociology at Indiana University, working toward a PhD in Sociology and an MS in Applied Statistics. His research interests include cultural consumption, stratification, and computational social science with a particular focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP).
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, social scientists have increased their efforts to access new datasets from the web or from large databases. An easy way to access such data are Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This workshop introduces techniques for working with APIs in Python to retrieve data from sources such as Wikipedia or The New York Times. It is intended for researchers who are new to working with APIs, but are familiar with Python or have completed the Introduction to Python workshop. In this workshop, we will retrieve data from the ProPublica Congress API. If you plan to follow along the code scripts, please take a few minutes to request a personal API key before the workshop. Computers with Python 3 and libraries (requests, json, pandas, matplotlib, bs4, wikipedia) pre-loaded are available in the SSRC on a first-come, first-served basis.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2022/22702
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIndiana University Workshop in Methods
dc.relation.urihttps://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/media/k22534hg97
dc.rightsThis work may be protected by copyright unless otherwise stated.
dc.subjectWorkshop in Methods
dc.subjectresearch methods
dc.subjectPython
dc.titleIntroduction to APIs for Social Scientists
dc.typePresentation

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