Weekly Learning Goals
Learn about different sources of textual corpora
Discuss limitations of ready-made and internet-based corpora
Use Online APIs for data gathering
Consider social and ethical implications of data-based research projects
This is a really short one (no need to thank me :) ). I would ask you to consider other limitations and issues related to using online data for studying social phenomena.
Please, work on exploring some online data sources and following these prompts. Feel free to explore other databases that might be more related to your specific areas of interest. We will brainstorm about your findings in class.
This reading is slightly more technical, but you are not expected to understand how remote APIs and JSON are implemented. Just focus on the conceptual and functional level and try to have a good take on these two questions: 1) What are APIs, and why do we use them? 2) What is JSON, and what is its role when using APIs.
You do not need to follow all steps to create your Youtube API key (although it is fine if you decide to do so). In the following formative assessment, you will be doing something similar with another API.
We prepared this guided walkthrough so that you can set up your NYT API that might be useful for your project. It is also an excellent example of how to use online APIs. If you had problems, fear not. We will play with it in our next class.
Wednesday Class
We will use this Jupyter Notebook in class Today. When we get there, simply download it to your computer and then upload your copy to Jupyter Hub.
Accessing data from Twitter - basic notebook using Tweepy
