This course teaches you to fetch and process data from services on the Internet. It covers Python list comprehensions and provides opportunities to practice extracting from and processing deeply nested data. You'll also learn how to use the Python requests module to interact with REST APIs and what to look for in documentation of those APIs. For the final project, you will construct a “tag recommender” for the flickr photo sharing site.

Data Collection and Processing with Python
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Data Collection and Processing with Python
This course is part of Python 3 Programming Specialization

Instructor: Paul Resnick
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Fetch and process data from Internet services effectively.
Master Python list comprehensions for data extraction and processing.
Utilize the Python requests module to interact with REST APIs and navigate API documentation.
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