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The answer to that question is an essential tool for a beginner. It will sustain you through the rest of your learning journey. Your end goal will be the fuel to get you through all the times you struggle when your code breaks or you struggle to understand a difficult concept. I first wanted to learn data science and coding because I couldn't open an Excel file with more than 1,048,576 rows. I literally could not do my job if I didn't learn how to code. That's it.

Step 3: Pull Data Using Python To begin, install the pandas and sodapy libraries. The sodapy library is a Python client for the Socrata Open Data API. This API allows access to many government, non-profit, and NGO data resources, like the CFTC's COT data.

Matthew Henry on Unsplash Note: I have written a Python version of this article, you can access that article here. The beginning of each article is the same. It walks you through how to sign up for the EIA API and obtain an API key. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is responsible for the US Department of Energy’s statistics and data.