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0Jupyter NotebookAudience · generalComplexity · 1/5Setup · easy

TL;DR

A student project that builds a simple pipeline to pull weather data from an API, clean it with Pandas, and save it as a CSV file for analysis.

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  root((Weather ETL Pipeline))
    What it does
      Extracts weather data
      Cleans with Pandas
      Loads to CSV
    Tech stack
      Python
      Pandas
      OpenWeather API
    Use cases
      ETL coursework example
      City weather comparison
      CSV data export
    Audience
      Students
      Data analysis beginners

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

See a worked example of an extract, transform, and load pipeline built with Python and Pandas.

REASON 2

Pull current weather data for multiple cities from a free public API.

REASON 3

Practice cleaning messy API data into a structured CSV file.

REASON 4

Use as a template for building a similar data pipeline coursework assignment.

What's in the stack?

PythonPandasJupyter NotebookOpenWeather API

How it stacks up

vivian-okoaze/analystlab-africa-week-7-task-data-pipelines-automationagostynah/distributed-vector-memory-routingakashsingh3031/python-libraries
Stars00
LanguageJupyter NotebookJupyter NotebookJupyter Notebook
Last pushed2020-12-03
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultyeasymoderateeasy
Complexity1/53/51/5
Audiencegeneralresearchervibe coder

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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 30min

Requires a free OpenWeather API key and Python packages installed from requirements.txt.

Wtf does this do

This project is a student assignment that builds a simple weather data pipeline, the kind of tool that automatically pulls information from an online source, cleans it up, and saves it for later use. It fetches current weather details for several Nigerian cities plus London from the OpenWeather API, a free online service that reports things like temperature, humidity, and wind speed for a given location. The pipeline works in three steps. First it requests the weather data for each city over the internet, handling cases where a request fails or times out instead of crashing the whole program. Second it cleans that raw data using a Python library called Pandas, converting text values to proper numbers, fixing inconsistent capitalization and spacing, and dropping any incomplete records. Third it saves the cleaned data as a CSV file, which is a simple spreadsheet style format that can be opened in tools like Excel, Power BI, or Tableau for further analysis or charting. The README includes a sample of the cleaned data table and a short written analysis, noting for example that Kano recorded the highest temperature among the cities checked while Abuja had the lowest, and that southern cities like Lagos and Enugu had noticeably higher humidity than the drier north. The author also describes the steps they took, including setting up a free OpenWeather account and recording a demo video of the process. To run it, a user needs Python 3, the requests and pandas libraries, a free OpenWeather API key, and the Jupyter Notebook file included in the repository. This is a course assignment demonstrating a basic extract, transform, and load workflow rather than a production ready tool.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Help me get an OpenWeather API key and set it up to run this pipeline.
Prompt 2
Explain how the extract, transform, and load functions in this notebook work.
Prompt 3
Show me how to add more cities to the weather data pipeline.
Prompt 4
Walk me through how the data cleaning steps handle missing or malformed API responses.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is analystlab-africa-week-7-task-data-pipelines-automation?

A student project that builds a simple pipeline to pull weather data from an API, clean it with Pandas, and save it as a CSV file for analysis.

What language is analystlab-africa-week-7-task-data-pipelines-automation written in?

Mainly Jupyter Notebook. The stack also includes Python, Pandas, Jupyter Notebook.

How hard is analystlab-africa-week-7-task-data-pipelines-automation to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is analystlab-africa-week-7-task-data-pipelines-automation for?

Mainly general.

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