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This course will show how one can treat the Internet as a source of data. We will scrape, parse, and read web data as well as access data using web APIs. We will work with HTML, XML, and JSON data formats in Python. This course will cover Chapters 11-13 of the textbook “Python for Everybody”. To succeed in this course, you should be familiar with the material covered in Chapters 1-10 of the textbook and the first two courses in this specialization. These topics include variables and expressions, conditional execution (loops, branching, and try/except), functions, Python data structures (strings, lists, dictionaries, and tuples), and manipulating files. This course covers Python 3....
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SM

Jun 18, 2020

This course was really interesting and did a good job introducing complicated topics in usefully simplified form. It was a pleasure to listen to the instructor and I got everything I wanted out of it.

ML

Jun 16, 2017

Excellent course with in depth explanations. It is well structured. It learn to access Web Data from very basics to optimum level. It help me to understand details of using Python to Access Web Data.

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By Steven C A

Oct 16, 2020

excellent, to improve the last module week try to explain it slowly because some times is so fast and there are things that are not super easy to understand

By Rishikesh S

Sep 16, 2017

Was an eye opening course to access data from .txt files and the nature of data that could be drawn out, was more interesting in the way Dr. Charles taught.

By Vishal P

Jun 11, 2020

Nice course, but we would enjoy it even more if it is more in dept for the basics of web like XML, JASON, Beautiful Soup, Client- server conversations etc.

By Devendra J (

May 19, 2020

Some of the assignments were pretty hard for me and I wished the explanation could be more better and had depth.

But overall really good course and helpfull

By Vinay S

Jan 9, 2020

I found this course little difficult as most of the syntax deviates from what I've learned. I had to check multiple times before I could finish the course.

By Deleted A

Feb 17, 2016

A more challenging course, as to be expected in this stage of the specification. It would be interesting to know how much of the underlying code is working

By P K K R

Jun 26, 2020

It has been a great course, learnt about different forms in which data can be transferred and how to access and interpret the data. Overall a great one :)

By xiaoyi

Jun 1, 2016

I think this course has many introduction about the logics of Internet, but it's not so interesting as in the previous courses in the same specialisation.

By Willy G M M

May 16, 2023

Excellent course, with examples on the use of web data. The explanation seems simple but the tasks encouraged me to investigate more to achieve the goal.

By Allen Y

Feb 18, 2016

The class is good, but the content in the class is not that much.

I think more complex project to solve some interesting tasks in homework will be better.

By Ruslan K

Apr 30, 2020

Information Technology (IT) is a very dynamic sector. That is why current version of the course is outdated. I can strongly recommend update the course.

By SATHWICK P

Jun 23, 2020

explain with more elobarate consept and examples would me more helpful.but this section is not as productive or clearly understood as previous courses.

By Henry A

Dec 9, 2020

Though a little tougher than the preliminary courses in the specialization, this course has really enhanced my creativity and problem - solving skills

By David T

Sep 17, 2020

good course, complex topic, but Dr Chucks is good. It could be a bit better with shorter videos, explanations of concepts a bit more easily or slower.

By Hayk M

Dec 17, 2019

Excellent course. I think it would be better if some part of the course is replaced with other materials. Mainly, I did not like the XML part and API.

By Lucia M

Aug 23, 2019

This course is great, altough sometimes the difficulty is a bit too high. I was able to solve all exercise but I copied a lot from the given materials

By Vincent

Sep 3, 2016

适合新手 还有很多不足之处。There are fewer supplemental materials. I think it can give more import supplementary, especially the most relevant portion of the book.

By Nial K

Sep 20, 2020

Some parts of the course need better explanation. I found installing BeautifulSoup confusing and it could have used better instructions for doing so.

By Haydn P

Jun 29, 2017

Wish the homework went more in-depth instead of simply using most of the skeleton code from the sample code used in the lecture slides pertaining it.

By Bugra C

Nov 17, 2020

I think we need more exercises and explanation. Worked examples were not good as previous chapters.

Overall good course thanks to a great instructor.

By Norman G

Jul 29, 2021

Very interesting with a lot of context and challenges alike. Sometimes the assignments seem very difficult but they turn out quite easy after all.

By ABHISHEK N

Nov 16, 2020

The course was reaaly great to attend. If something could improve, it would be that XML and JSON could have been in detail and REST was not taught.

By Saman F

Jul 2, 2020

need to provide some detailed information about how to get API key.

thanks to Dr. Chuck for such good lectures and also the University of Michigan.

By Marc B

Jun 28, 2016

Excellent - but I wish that the course had tougher assignments to really push me to practice on the topic - although I admit this is hard to grade.

By Sylvain C

Nov 8, 2015

very interesting course gving an introduction to the use of Python to work with web data

Maybe too quick but in any case, it is a good introduction.