🖥️ Week 01, Day 03 - Lecture

Collecting Data from the Web (APIs) with Python

⏰ Wednesday, 15 July 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm 📍 CBG.2.01 (see LSE’s 🗺️ campus map)

🗣️ Lecture Overview

• ONS data sources and file downloads
• HTTP requests in the terminal and Python
• REST APIs, endpoints, and parameters
• VS Code and Jupyter notebooks
• Fetching Open-Meteo rainfall data with requests
• Weather data in a pandas DataFrame

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