Applied Data Science Capstone Coursera

About this course: This capstone project course will give you a taste of what data scientists go through in real life when working with data. You will learn about why data cleaning and munging is an important part of data science and how it occupies more than 80% of a data scientist's daily work. You will learn about location data and different location data providers, such as Foursquare. You will learn how to make RESTful API calls to the Foursquare API to retrieve data about venues in different neighborhoods around the world. You will also learn how to be creative in situations where data are not readily available by scraping web data and parsing HTML code.