4.4 Extras

Here are some ideas for you to add to these projects.

4.4.1 Locate more JSON-format data

A search of Kaggle will turn up some other interesting data sets in JSON format.

• https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/rtatman/iris-dataset-json-version: This data set is famous and available in a number of distinct formats.

• https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/conoor/stack-overflow-tags-usage

• https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/queyrusi/the-warship-dataset

One of these is a JSON download. The other two are ZIP archives that contain JSON-format content.

This will require revising the application’s architecture to extract the JSON format data instead of CSV format data.

An interesting complication here is the distinction between CSV data and JSON data:

• CSV data is pure text, and later conversions are required to make useful Python objects.

• Some JSON data is converted to Python objects by the parser. Some data (like datestamps) will be left as text.

At acquisition time, this doesn’...