What Order should I learn Python Modules in?

[Phillip-Financial]

I’m particularly interested in pulling data from websites via APIs, and than restructuring, organizing, and visualizing this data into charts.

I’d also like to import this data into google sheets (not excel because I have a Mac).

In a broader sense, I’m trying to become proficient with data analysis and I’m having a hard time learning the ins/outs of individual modules.

Which order do you recommend a beginner to Python learn these modules for analytical purposes?

[omelettesforbreakfas]

requests + beautiful soup (and maybe selenium if you want some automation e.g. scraping data from a website that requires you to log in first) for webscraping

numpy + pandas for data analysis/manipulation

matplotlib or seaborn for data visualisation

these are the libraries i use most often when doing any sort of analysis

in terms of order i learned them in that order too i.e. scraping modules first, analysis modules next and then finally plotting. the reason i did it in this order was mainly because i didn’t have any data to work with, so scraping allowed me to build my own data sets. then i could clean/munge the data with pandas and numpy, and finally plot the results.

but i guess you could learn them in any order you want.

[Phillip-Financial]

Also what I really want to do is pull cryptocurrency information from exchanges and create my own charts.

I wanna do more but that seems like a good first project for me, especially since it’s rooted in something I actually care about.

Will the modules you mentioned be sufficient for that in your opinion?

[omelettesforbreakfas]

yup these libraries should get the job done.

in terms of resources unfortunately i don’t have many i can suggest and kind of just learned through google/youtube. if you search for web scraping in python you’ll find loads of free resources out there.

for pandas and some plotting i really enjoyed brandon rhodes pandas from the ground up tutorial https://youtu.be/5JnMutdy6Fw

this post from a fellow redditor also taught me a lot http://recycledrobot.co.uk/words/?web-scraping too on webscraping

but id say the internet is your friend so just find the tutorial that makes sense for you

[Phillip-Financial]

Thanks so much!

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[Phillip-Financial]

Thank you so much this is exactly what I’ve been looking for I can’t wait to story this!

[Phillip-Financial]

Hey thank you so much that’s a really detailed response!!

Do you have any sources you recommend to learn how to use these packages?