Interacting With REST APIs in Python With 5 Lines of Code

An essential skill for any web scraper or data scientist is to know how to collect information from a publicly available REST API. In short, a REST API is a very simple web service where simple HTTP requests (just like a web browser) are used to collect data usually in the form of a JSON … Read more

Loading Data into Pandas: 5 Tips and Tricks You May or May Not Know

If you’ve ever worked with Pandas in Python before, you’ll know that there are a bunch of different ways in which you can import tabulated data. Pandas is perhaps one of the most widely used Python packages for loading, manipulating and exporting data. We’ve even explored this in a separate blog post. While you may … Read more