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

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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Reviewed on Jan 21, 2021
very good, very intuitive course material. however doing something in full python environment within the course would have been even better. thank you professors and all others from UMich and coursera
Reviewed on Jan 24, 2020
Excellent coursework and exercises to learn, especially for beginners -Really liked the presentation and constant support - seems like they know how people think while learning python :)
Reviewed on Jan 2, 2022
Excellent course. Highly recommended. I learned a lot about parts of Python that I was not previously proficient in. I will definitely use what I learned in a job that I'm just about to start.
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