Data Structures & Sources

In this chapter, we’re thinking about how Python’s built-in data structures (along with Pandas workflows) connect to how data is often structured in files or made available on the web.

We’ll also be covering how to access data via web APIs, and preliminary workflows for text mining & documents.

Acknowledgements

Click here for a full list of acknowledgements for the CSV, JSON & Pandas portions of this chapter.

Click here for a full list of acknowledgements for the web APIs portion of this chapter.

Data

We’ll be working with three data files in this chapter.

• example.csv

• example.json

• pdf20.pdf

Chapter Table of Contents

• Structured Data
• Loading Data
• Web APIs
  • South Bend Open Data Portal
  • U.S. Census Bureau
• Working With PDFs
• Application

Application

Click here for a Jupyter Notebook template for this chapter’s application problems.