About this course: This course will show how one can treat the Internet as a source of data. We will scrape, parse, and read web data as well as access data using web APIs. We will work with HTML, XML, and JSON data formats in Python. This course will cover Chapters 11-13 of the textbook “Python for Informatics”. To succeed in this course, you should be familiar with the material covered in Chapters 1-10 of the textbook and the first two courses in this specialization. These topics include variables and expressions, conditional execution (loops, branching, and try/except), functions, Python data structures (strings, lists, dictionaries, and tuples), and manipulating files. This course covers Python 2.
Created by: University of Michigan
Taught by: Charles Severance, Associate Professor
School of Information
| Basic Info |
Course 3 of 5 in the
Python for Everybody Specialization.
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| Commitment | 6 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
| User Ratings |
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Getting Started
In this section you will install Python and a text editor. In previous classes in the specialization this was an optional assignment, but in this class it is the first requirement to get started. From this point forward we will stop using the browser-based P...
9 videos, 6 readings
Graded: Peer Review: Installing and Running Python Screen Shots
WEEK 2
Regular Expressions (Chapter 11)
Regular expressions are a very specialized language that allow us to succinctly search strings and extract data from strings. Regular expressions are a language unto themselves. It is not essential to know how to use regular expressions, but they can be qui...
4 videos, 1 reading
Graded: Quiz: Regular Expressions
Graded: Extracting Data With Regular Expressions
WEEK 3
Networks and Sockets (Chapter 12)
In this section we learn about the protocols that web browsers use to retrieve documents and web applications use to interact with Application Program Interfaces (APIs).
7 videos, 1 reading
Graded: Networks and Sockets
Graded: Understanding the Request / Response Cycle
WEEK 4
Programs that Surf the Web (Chapter 12)
In this section we learn to use Python to retrieve data from web sites and APIs over the Internet.
5 videos, 1 reading
Graded: Reading Web Data From Python
Graded: Scraping HTML Data with BeautifulSoup
Graded: Assignment: Following Links in HTML Using BeautifulSoup
WEEK 5
Web Services and XML (Chapter 13)
In this section, we learn how to retrieve and parse XML (eXtensible Markup Language) data.
7 videos
Graded: eXtensible Markup Language
Graded: Extracting Data from XML
WEEK 6
JSON and the REST Architecture (Chapter 13)
In this module, we work with Application Program Interfaces / Web Services using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data format.
9 videos, 1 reading
Graded: REST, JSON, and APIs
Graded: Extracting Data from JSON
Graded: Using the GeoJSON API
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Ratings and Reviews
Great course. Thanks to Prof. Dr. Chuck, he has made the course interesting and learning fun.
Verry good introductory course into using python to access web data. Gives good background information. The exercises are quite easy for people with IT or Python knowledge.
Slightly harder compared to the previous one (that's something should be expected right??), but still very good explanation!
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MO
Once again, great course! This time was very challenging but when i stuck into a problem Dr Chuck helped me with his lecture!
One thing - I'd rather prefered when the video was splited in two, so I can read the presentation during Dr Chuck's lecture.
Thanks!