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Install and Configuration

Python on Windows

Package Installation

There are a number of ways to install 3rd-party libraries for Python. Generally, the easiest method is to use a package manager that can also handle the downloading/installation of dependencies (additional libraries that a particular module might depend on). Below are the two standard package managers for Python:

  • easy_install - the classic package manager that is part of the setuptools library
  • pip, the emerging standard for Python package management

Learning Python, Discussion Leaders

  • Chapters 1-3: On your own
  • Chapter 4 - Dave Gulliver (reading due Jan. 10)
  • Chapter 5 - Chris Schnaars (reading due Jan. 17)
  • Chapter 6 - Ron Campbell (reading due Jan. 24)
  • Chapter 7 - Juan-Pablo Velez (reading due Jan. 31)
  • Chapter 8 - Michelle Minkoff (reading due Feb. 7)
  • Chapter 9 - Derek Willis (reading due Feb. 14)
  • Chapter 10 - Anthony DeBarros (reading due Feb. 21)
  • Chapter 11 - TBA (reading due March 7 (bumped a week due to NICAR conference))
  • Chapter 12 - TBA (reading due March 14)
  • Chapter 13 - TBA (reading due March 21)
  • Chapter 14 - TBA (reading due March 28)
  • Chapter 15 - TBA (reading due April 4)

Tutorials

  • Install/Config (Serdar)
  • Python's Interactive Interpreter: A Sandbox for Exploring Data and Code (Serdar)
  • Working with CSVs (Serdar)
  • Working with Excel (Serdar)
  • Working with Databases (Serdar)
  • Data Wrangling 101: Scrape, Clean, Output (Serdar) -- Demonstrate how to scrape data from a multi-level website, perform some basic data cleaning and processing, and then output data as CSV and/or insert into a database. Aron Pilhofer has volunteered a test site with data for scraping

Resources

Web Scraping

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