Project ideas
To generate project ideas, it’s best to go through the relevant sections of the “Fields of Gold” paper.
Also, here’s a list with a couple of ideas. Don’t feel restricted by these options, though! There are plenty of other great ideas and we encourage you to think of applications in which you use two or more APIs, or in which you combine web scraping with relevant APIs.
When using a proprietary data sources requiring login (e.g., Netflix) or API credentials (e.g., Twitter API), make sure you can actually get access to the accounts (and potentially share those with team members).
Television
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive (looped over dates in the explore page, extract all info; extension: data-driven categorization)
- TV News archive (including captions & topics)