Python for the humanities

Examples of use cases

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

API querying

Time:
9am–noon

Instructor:
Alex Razoumov (Simon Fraser University)

Live notes:
Etherpad

Materials:
Slides
Download the Jupyter notebook for this morning:

You will open this notebook on your computer and work in it.

You can see (but not edit) the content of the notebook here.
After the end of today’s class, we will publish a completed notebook at the link above so that you don’t have to worry about missing something during the class: just focus on learning.

Topic:
We will gather internet data using APIs.

Post course material:
We will post the completed notebook after the course.

Webscraping

Time:
1:30pm–4:00pm

Instructor:
Marie-Hélène Burle (Simon Fraser University)

Live notes:
Etherpad

Material:
Website


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