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Intro to Programming Using Open Government Data

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Saturday Projects

Goal: Create open gov projects based off of the Python Workshop Saturday projects.

Three project ideas:

  • API project
  • Stats project
  • Graphical - displaying data project


API project

What do we want people to learn?

  • What an API is.
  • Using the URL bar to query an API vs doing so within a script.
  • Endpoints and return values. Get vs put vs post vs delete

Good possible APIs to use:
Capitol Words? Or general Real Time Congress, or Influence Explorer. The key is that whichever API we use should be as simple as possible, with straightforward attribute names.

What should the API do?

  • Show how easy it is to access government data online.
  • Show examples of querying - how to look for intersects, unions, if-then, etc.
  • Maybe link it to a simple display - html page?
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