© 2015-2020 Ben Lewis, Morten Warncke-Wang, Benjamin Mako Hill
Documents are published under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, source code is published under the MIT license (see the LICENSE file.)
This project is an introduction to using the Requests library with the Wikipedia API to build data sets and explore them, as a part of the Community Data Science Workshops at the University of Washington.
The initial work was done by Mako, however Ben chose to take the
development of the session in a different direction, to try and de-duplicate as
much as possible. Instead of writing out one long query URL, we build it
piecemeal and then immediately move to using the handy params named variable
for the get function in Requests; this way, students see what a query string
looks like and can build one by hand if they ever need to, but they're also
immediately using the tools they'll be using in the future.