Class 14, Friday, February 16

String and CSV Chrestomathics

Our family rule – When asked what is the weather – The forecast is pain

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Look both ways

• Back and ahead

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Agenda

• Chresthomatics

• CSV processing

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Checkout

• weather.gov

• forecast.weather.gov/zipcity.php?inputstring=22903

• forecast.weather.gov/zipcity.php?inputstring=22903

• html for forecast.weather.gov/zipcity.php?inputstring=22903

• html zoom-in

• continental-usa.csv

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Examples

• sellers_analytics.py

• Analyzes a dataset of best selling fiction

Book, Author, Language, Date, Sales

Don Quixote, de Cervantes, Spanish, 1605, 500000000

A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens, English, 1859, 200000000

The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, English, 1954, 150000000

The Little Prince, de Saint-Exupéry, French, 1943, 140000000

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Rowling, English, 1997, 120000000

The Hobbit, Tolkien, English, 1937, 100000000

And Then There Were None, Christie, English, 1939, 100000000

Dream of the Red Chamber, Xueqin, Chinese, 1754, 100000000

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll, English, 1865, 100000000

• weathering_heights.py

• Produces a weather forecast for a user-specified zipcode.

• where_is_it.py

• Determines a rough estimate of the geocenter of continental USA by making use of CSV dataset continental-usa.csv.

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Homework

• HW 12

• HW 13

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Aesthetics

• Future criteria

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To do

• Review artifacts

 

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