Data Acquisition for Analytics and Data Science
This badge confirms completion of Data Acquisition for Analytics and Data Science with Professor Terence Parr at the Data Institute, University of San Francisco.
All work was demonstrated and completed in Python. Students completing this certificate are able to:
- Convert between CSV, TSV, XML, and JSON data files
- Pull structured data from REST APIs such as IMDB movie data
- Pull structured data from sites requiring an application ID such as YouTube
- Extract unstructured data, such as links/titles/descriptions, from various websites through HTML scraping
- Use Selenium to launch and control the Chrome browser to extract data from behind login screens