Planning for Week 13

High Level Topic Summary

Web Scraping

HTML table structuring tags

table

ol and ul

Processing HTML as a tree

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

Determining HTTP

Parameters within HTTP

Data Acquisition and Processing

Readings for the week

Day	Reading	Reading Questions
Monday	Chapter 22	None
Tuesday	-
Wednesday	Chapter 23, 23.1 and 23.2	None
Friday	Chapter 23, 23.3	None

Projected Class and Homework

HW	Day Out	Day Due	Contents
HW_4.6	Tuesday	Thursday	Web Scraping Practicum
HW_4.7	Friday	Monday	APIs

Tuesday Problem Day

Web Scraping Practicum and Question Set. This is also the basis for HW_4.6.

Progression

There is little new data systems concepts to introduce this week. We start the week with web scraping. This is primarily an application of the tree structured format from earlier in the semester, and using it to extract two-dimensional data contained within web pages, and acquiring the data through HTTP. Similarly, learning about APIs is more about understanding the provider’s requirements for requests and translating to the proper HTTP for making the requests.