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Section Recap

Introduction

This short lesson summarizes the topics we covered in section 17 and why they'll be important to you as a data scientist.

Objectives

You will be able to:

• Understand and explain what was covered in this section
• Understand and explain why this section will help you become a data scientist

Key Takeaways

APIs can provide access to a wide range of data that you might need as a data scientist. Key takeaways:

• While there are many other kinds of APIs, as a data scientist, you'll typically be working with web APIs
• The Requests library in Python is a great starting point for making http(s) requests to APIs
• The two most common http methods you will use when accessing APIs are GET (to retrive information) and POST (to send information).
• Typically you'll need to authenticate in some manner with most APIs - one common methods for doing so is using OAuth