EarthQuake

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Earthquake Start of a project to bring in information from a website with an Application Programming Interface (API). We are going to use a modified version of "Project: Fetching Current Weather Data" from "Automate the boring stuff with Python" by Al Sweigart What is going on below? We import libraries to dela with json, reuest from the server and the pandas library. In [1]: import json , requests import pandas as pd from pandas import json_normalize In this section we creating a string made up of the URL. Requesting the information from the site with the URL we created and pass back the information. Data comes from the US Geological survey  https://www.usgs.gov/about/about-us/who-we-are and one of their earthquake feeds. Then print out what was returned. In [2]: url = 'https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_hour.geojson' response = requests . get ( url ) response . raise_for_status () Now we need load the data which i
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Using NodeXL to visualise twitter and looking at what it shows a bit

Recorded with https://screencast-o-matic.com Video looks at the using NodeXL https://nodexl.com/ to look at tweets. The professional version was used but a free version is available. Uploaded the graph produced to the NodeXL Graph Gallery and so the hidden gems other than the graph that is produced. The links for downloading settings, etc used in a particular graph are at the bottom of the page linked out from the gallery.



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