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CCT Demystifying APIs for Researchers

When

11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Jan. 24, 2024

Where

Zoom

A wide variety of data shared on the web (including spatial data, census data, 'omics data, bibliometric data, and more!) are available through some web API ("Application Programming Interface"). In this workshop you'll learn what an API is, how to access data using APIs, and how to write R code to automate downloading data from APIs using the httr2 package.

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Contacts

Eric Scott
ericscott@arizona.edu

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