API

Getting data from Quandl

Quandl is sometimes a useful data source. Quandl is essentially an centralised market place of data from various sources. An advantage of this is that you can access data by simply getting familiar with Quandl’s API, as opposed to having to tinker around with the APIs of multiple data…

Twitter Data

With an API, getting data from Twitter is much easier than scraping it off a webpage.

A common(but not the only) library to use is Tweepy.

We first import the tweepy library, which allows us to fetch Twitter data with a simple API.