Pokemon Project
Project
This project involved using the Pokemon API (https://pokeapi.co/docs/v2) and creating functions to call specific endpoints to get the data. There are several endpoints in the API involving from one that can give Pokemon characteristics all the way to one that can give details on locations that are in all of the games.
The project page can be found here and the GitHub repo is here
Difficulties
There were a couple of difficulties when doing this project.
The first involved trying to find an endpoint that can be useful for exploratory data exploration. I still haven’t been able to find a decent endpoint for this but I did try to combine some data.
The second difficulty was a code one. This involved trying to get the
resulting data from the API into an easily readable and usable format.
The best thing that helped with this was finding the unnest method in
the dplyr package. This allowed nested data frames to be flattened
into the current data frame which made returning that data much easier.
Post-mortem
The main thing I would do differently when approaching this project or even this API is to look more closely at what other languages do with certain endpoints. How do they handle the data, especially the nested data? Which endpoints did they do first?