Here are my assignments for this week! API Webscraping Geocoding Gender Inference I found all of these exercises to be really interesting concepts about coding. When I tried to go in and complete the functions and write the commands(?) though, I realized half of the problem was the fact that I misspelled a word. I […]
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I would love to understand this, but I don’t. I really went in open minded, but I can solely upload files. Python and I are not friends, we do not speak the same language. I think the gender inference has the potential to be very useful in my own research, it would be nice to […]
For this week, the concept I struggled with the most was the language. I frequently got stuck due to so many stupid, easy typos. I wrote (‘items’) rather than [‘items’] in the API Requests assignment, I was trying to run a function with text.strip rather than text.strip() in the Webscraping assignment, and I had placelist.txt […]
API Requests Webscraping Geocoding Gender Inference Being familiar with other programming languages is of course helpful, but sometimes it proves to be a hinderance when your brain keeps jumbling languages together. I use SAS and R for data analysis at work, and R is just similar enough to Python that I kept catching myself subconsciously […]
This week’s assignments had me staring at my computer screen for hours hoping the mysteries of Python would reveal themselves to me. In all honesty, it wasn’t that bad. After awhile, it was fun, like a puzzle that needed solving. The biggest thing I need to remember is to slow down. Unlike the task of […]
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Links to this week’s assignments: API Requests, Webscraping, Geocoding, Gender Inference One concept I found difficult for this week’s module “Getting Data,” was the “Get the Header” portion of the Webscraping assignment. Particularly the last step of the section where we had to call the “write_this()” function but replace the input variable with the header […]
Reading No reading this week! Watch After watching the video above, you may be asking why I included it. Historians aren’t journalists and we rarely put together our own datasets. However, every time I teach this class I get students who want to transcribe or otherwise put together their own data for the final project. […]