Introduction

Hello and welcome to the intro to data.world tutorial! At data.world, we're building the most meaningful, collaborative, and abundant data resource in the world by breaking down the barriers between data and people. Join data.world to find interesting data and understand it at a glance, store and showcase your own data and data projects, as well as find and collaborate with others.

Open data is at the heart of data.world, and as such we want to make it as easy as possible to use data.world data in your environment of choice so you can do your work easier and solve real problems faster.

Which brings us to this tutorial where you’ll learn the different ways to connect to data.world using our Python SDK. The data.world Python SDK will help you to easily load data, explore metadata, query datasets and even push your work back to data.world for storage and sharing.

Learn more at https://data.world/integrations/python and let’s start with the basics of loading the datadotworld library and pulling in a dataset to kick things off….

Import the datadotworld module as dw
Use the load_dataset method to assign stephen-hoover/chicago-city-council-votes to a dataset variable.

Exercise

Introduction

Instructions