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Append data frames

In this exercise, you’ll practice appending records by creating a dataset of the 100 highest-rated cafes in New York City according to Yelp.

APIs often limit the amount of data returned, since sending large datasets can be time- and resource-intensive. The Yelp Business Search API limits the results returned in a call to 50 records. However, the offset parameter lets a user retrieve results starting after a specified number. By modifying the offset, we can get results 1-50 in one call and 51-100 in another. Then, we can append the data frames.

pandas (as pd), requests, and json_normalize() have been imported. The 50 top-rated cafes are already in a data frame, top_50_cafes.

Instructions
100 XP
  • Add an "offset" parameter to params so that the Yelp API call will get cafes 51-100.
  • Append the results of the API call to top_50_cafes, setting ignore_index so rows will be renumbered.
  • Print the shape of the resulting data frame, cafes, to confirm there are 100 records.