Processing data in Python
After introducing some the most important Python packages for data analytics, we take a small step back to describe some of the tools of interest to load and manipulate data from different formats with Python.
Most social media APIs provide data in JSON or XML. Python comes well equipped, from this point of view, with packages to support these formats that are part of the standard library.
For convenience, we will focus on JSON as this format can be mapped nicely into Python dictionaries and it's easier to read and understand. The interface of the JSON library is pretty straightforward, you can either load or dump data, from and to JSON to Python dictionaries.
Let's consider the following snippet:
# Chap01/demo_json.py import ...
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