Collecting additional data

Data Science for Business

Michael Chow

Data Scientist

Even more data

• APIs
• Public records
• Mechanical Turk

Data APIs

• Application Programming Interface
• Request data over the internet

• Twitter
• Wikipedia
• Yahoo! Finance
• Google Maps
• Many more!

Tracking a hashtag

• All tweets with #DataFramed (DataCamp's podcast!)
• Use Twitter API

 

Public records

• For the US, data.gov
• For the EU, data.europa.eu

 

Building a training set

Mechanical Turk

Mechanical Turk

• Resource: AWS MTurk

• Label customer reviews

• Extract text from a form
• Highlight key words in a sentence

Let's practice!

Data Science for Business