Stats in Python

Dad Joke

I was robbed by 6 dwarfs today.

Not Happy.

Housekeeping

• Reach out for help with final project!

Housekeeping

• Intermediate Python
  • Regular expressions, list comprehensions, classes, debugging
  • Agent-based modeling, cluster computing, more computational text analysis
  • Some resources on the wiki (Advanced Computational Communication)
• Project presentation signup
  • tinyurl.com/com674fp

Web scraping

• Python impersonates a web browser
• HTML instead of JSON
• requests
• BeautifulSoup
• Selenium
• scrapy
• splinter

Statistics in Python

• Meh :)
• My workflow uses Python to collect data and create measures, then R to do statistics and create visualizations
• Can also export to SPSS, Stata, or whatever. Everything reads CSV files!
• Python is great for ML, OTOH

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