AE 06: Opinion articles in The Arizona Daily Wildcat

Application exercise

Part 1 - Data scraping

This will be done in the wildcat-scrape.py Python script within the ae-06-wildcat-scrape folder. Save the resulting data frame in the data/ folder.

Part 2 - Data analysis

Let’s start by loading the packages we will need:

import pandas as pd
  • Load the data you saved into the data folder and name it wildcat.
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  • Who are the most prolific authors of the 100 most recent opinion articles in The Arizona Daily Wildcat?
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  • Draw a line plot of the number of opinion articles published per day in The Arizona Daily Wildcat.
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  • What percent of the most recent 100 opinion articles in The Arizona Daily Wildcat mention “climate” in their title?
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  • What percent of the most recent 100 opinion articles in The Arizona Daily Wildcat mention “election” in their title or abstract?
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  • Come up with another question and try to answer it using the data.
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