QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4: Data sources, data interfaces and library code
Students identify data sources, formats, storage and APIs for the data interface, and reuse code from built-in and third-party libraries.
One content description from the full QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4 — Complex Digital Data Exchange Problems and Solution Requirements journey. All 16 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (16)
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Primary and secondary data sources
2
Authentic data in large repositories
3
Dataset file formats: CSV, XLSX, JSON and XML
4
Delimited (CSV) files: structure
5
XML files: structure
6
What an API is
7
Reading JSON data from an API response
8
Data storage systems
9
Why use a database instead of a spreadsheet
10
Choosing data types for input, storage and output
11
What a library is: standard vs third-party
12
Imports
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The math module
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Descriptive statistics in Python with the statistics module
15
Hashing text with hashlib in Python
16
Third-party dependencies
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