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Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789537000
Length 90 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Collecting and analyzing Bitcoin Dice game data

In this section, we will look at the data from a dice games portal, read in the data from the API, and use pandas to convert it into a tabular format. We will also export the data and find the things that need cleaning up. We'll clean up, manipulate, and reshape the data, making it ready for analysis, and finally, we will draw a simple plot from the clean data.

Getting data from the Games Web API

The user can explore the dice games data from MegaDice.com, which is available from the website's API link at https://www.megadice.com.

We will use the pandas read_JSON method to read individual winner history data from the MegaDice API link. We create a pandas DataFrame,...

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