cm011.Rmd

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title: "Getting data from the web: API access"
output: html_document
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```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(cache=TRUE)
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# cm011 - October 31, 2016

![](images/halloween.jpeg)

## Overview

* Identify multiple methods for obtaining data from the internet
* Define application program interface (API)
* Explain authentication keys and demonstrate secure methods for storing these keys
* Demonstrate how to use canned packages in R to access APIs
* Practice gathering data from Twitter API using the `twitteR` package in R

## Slides and links

* [Slides](extras/cm011_slides.html)
* [Notes and practice `twitteR` activity from in-class](webdata01.html)

* [More install-and-play API packages for R](https://github.com/ropensci/webservices)
* [Tweepy](http://www.tweepy.org/) - a Python package for obtaining data from Twitter

## To do for Wednesday

* [Finish homework 5](hw05-python-data-analysis.html)
* Make sure you are working on your final projects