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Beginning Data Science with Python and Jupyter

By : Chris DallaVilla
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Beginning Data Science with Python and Jupyter

By: Chris DallaVilla

Overview of this book

Getting started with data science doesn’t have to be an uphill battle. This step-by-step video course is ideal for beginners who know a little Python and are looking for a quick, fast-paced introduction. Get to grips with the skills you need for entry-level data science in this hands-on Python and Jupyter course. You’ll learn about some of the most commonly used libraries that are part of the Anaconda distribution, and then explore machine learning models with real datasets to give you the skills and exposure you need for the real world.We'll start with understanding the basics of Jupyter and its standard features. You'll be analyzing an example of a data analytics report. After analyzing a data analytics report, next step is to implement multiple classification algorithms. We’ll then show you how easy it can be to scrape and gather your own data from the open web, so that you can apply your new skills in an actionable context. Finish up by learning to visualize these data interactively. The code bundle for this course is available at https://github.com/TrainingByPackt/Beginning-Data-Science-with-Python-and-Jupyter-eLearning
Table of Contents (3 chapters)
Chapter 3
Web Scraping and Interactive Visualizations
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Section 2
Scraping Web Page Data
In the spirit of leveraging the internet as a database, we can think about acquiring data from web pages either by scraping content or by interfacing with web APIs. Generally, scraping content means getting the computer to read data that was intended to be displayed in a human-readable format. This is in contradistinction to web APIs, where data is delivered in machine-readable formats – the most common being JSON. This video covers: - Web Scraping - Introduction to HTTP Requests - HTTP Methods - Making HTTP Requests in the Jupyter Notebook - Demo on Handling HTTP requests with Python in a Jupyter Notebook - Parsing HTML with Jupyter Notebooks - Fundamentals of HTML - Demo on Parsing HTML with Python in a Jupyter Notebook - Demo - Web Scraping with Jupyter Notebooks