Intro to APIs

Dad Joke

Within minutes, the detective knew exactly what the murder weapon was.

It was a brief case.

Housekeeping

• Self-assessment reflection and planning document
  • Feedback on planning documents next week

Scraping Data

• Three main ways of getting web data:
  • Downloading
  • APIs
  • Scraping

HW Review

Paper Discussion

Kieran Healy and James Moody (2014). “Data Visualization in Sociology.” American Review of Sociology. 40: 105-28.

Discussant: Jeremy