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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions coursebook/modules/m2/2.1.1-WhereToFindData.ipynb
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"- Does the dataset contain what’s needed to solve the research question\n",
" available?\n",
"- Can I legally and ethically use the data?\n",
"- Is the data easily accessible? - Is the dataset well-understood and\n",
" tested?\n",
"- Is the data easily accessible?\n",
"- Is the dataset well-understood and tested?\n",
"- Is data quality and quantity appropriate?\n",
"\n",
"Another useful concept here is [data readiness\n",
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14 changes: 7 additions & 7 deletions coursebook/modules/m2/2.1.2-LegalityAndEthics.ipynb
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"## Ethics\n",
"\n",
"**Ethics are a shared responsibility, however, it’s another area that we\n",
"should all feel comfortable seeking expert advice. At Turing, we have an\n",
"Ethics Advisory Board that we can look to for guidance.**\n",
"should all feel comfortable seeking expert advice. At the Turing, we have\n",
"the Turing Research Ehtics (TREx) team that we can look to for guidance.**\n",
"\n",
"Although there will be a lot of crossovers between legality and ethics,\n",
"we should be aware that there may be additional ethical considerations\n",
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"> improving living conditions in Europe, understanding quality of life\n",
"> and also other examples of uses in the 2007 flyers.\n",
"\n",
"— *excerpt from Ethics Advisory Group practice application form\n",
"submitted for the running of this course*\n",
"— *excerpt from TREx practice application form submitted for the running\n",
"of this course*\n",
"\n",
"The above excerpt is part of a larger document that outlines our\n",
"application to Turing’s Ethics Advisory Group. The decision to move\n",
"forward with the dataset was made given consideration of the paragraph\n",
"quoted as well as points set out in the rest of the document.\n",
"application to TREx. The decision to move forward with the dataset was\n",
"made given consideration of the paragraph quoted as well as points set\n",
"out in the rest of the document.\n",
"\n",
"### Bias in, bias out\n",
"\n",
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12 changes: 8 additions & 4 deletions coursebook/modules/m2/2.1.4-DataSourcesAndFormats.ipynb
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"have a strange additional column `Unnamed: 8` that has *only* missing\n",
"(null) values. This is another topic we’ll revisit later.\n",
"\n",
"### Customising pandas.read_csv\n",
"### Customising `pandas.read_csv`\n",
"\n",
"The original file from the World Bank contains a few lines of metadata\n",
"at the top:\n"
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"| Maths | Mr F | [email protected] | 07123123123 | Monday | 1000 | 1200 |\n",
"| English | Ms P | [email protected] | 07456456456 | Tuesday | 1100 | 1300 |\n",
"| Physics | Mrs A | [email protected] | 07789789789 | Thursday | 1400 | 1600 |\n",
"| French | Mr F | f@school.co | 07123123123 | Friday | 1000 | 1300 |\n",
"| French | Mr F | f@school.com | 07123123123 | Friday | 1000 | 1300 |\n",
"\n",
"**Relational database with two tables:**\n",
"\n",
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"import requests\n",
"\n",
"url = \"https://api.datamuse.com/words\" \n",
"params = {\"rel_jjb\": \"dog\",\"max\": 5} \n",
"params = {\"rel_jjb\": \"dog\", \"max\": 5} \n",
"r = requests.get(url, params=params)"
]
},
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" [BeautifulSoup](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/)\n",
" to help parse this heavily structured format.\n",
"- Web scraping: extracting structured data from web sites.\n",
" [Scrapy](https://scrapy.org/) is a popular library here."
" [Scrapy](https://scrapy.org/) is a popular library here.\n",
"\n",
"## RSE Course\n",
"\n",
"There are some examples of working with databases and other data formats in [Module 10 of our Research Software Engineering Course](https://alan-turing-institute.github.io/rse-course/html/module10_scientific_file_formats/index.html)."
]
}
],
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