Other Data Sources

Topics

This week’s assignments will help you identify other data sources to use in your project.

Reading

Please skim these Wikitech entries:

• Pageviews
• User History
• Clickstream

Tasks

Complete the following tasks:

• Choose one alternative data source you consider using in your project proposal
• Describe why you need this data and what you are trying to achieve
• Describe the unit of analysis an relevent fields in the data
• Do some EDA and report some summary statistics on the fields interests you

Some useful links:

• Wikimedia Downloads: Analytics Datasets
  • Wikistats: Pageview complete dumps
  • Analytics Datasets: Unique Devices
  • Analytics Datasets: Clickstream
• Wikipedia API Documentation
• Wikipedia API for Python Tutorial
• Wikidata

Weekly Questions

Answer the standard participation questions