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Exercise

Loading JSON data

You have been asked to analyze some data about politicians from different countries. This data is stored in JSON format. The first step you need to accomplish is to load it in and convert it from string data to dictionaries.

dask.bag has been imported for you as db.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Import the json package.
  • Read all of the files ending in .json inside the data/politicians directory into a Dask bag as strings.
  • Convert these JSON strings into Python dictionaries.
  • Print out 1 example dictionary.