Is anyone else having difficulty understanding this little section? I feel like I couldn’t fully understand what they were trying to teach me. I attempted the challenge and got pretty close, but was still off by a few small errors and I feel like I’m just not fully grasping what they’re saying here.
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I’m feeling this way too! I’m on the same career path and it’s been pretty smooth sailing (other than having a hard time grasping some of the statistics stuff). I had someone recommend to me to do the Learn the Command Line course and that helped me a bit to feel more competent but definitely doesn’t go over this API stuff. It was also a pretty quick and easy course, I finished it within a week or so.
I’m debating on just going for the full python course as well, wondering If I can just pick and choose the courses along the career path to just get enough certifications to get a job and then continue it later?
From what I understand with my goal, is that I can get a job without all of this career path being completed and if you want to advance more into data analytics then this stuff will eventually become important, but not exactly for a beginner into the field.
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I can’t seem to figure out how we are making "an API call to request state-level data containing: * The total commuters count, and
- The count for commuters who travel 90 or more minutes."
Where are these “counts” contained and where do we confirm this?
I come from a web programming background and have used APIs before so maybe I’m forgetting something obvious 
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Hi, it’s definitely a bit confusing. You can find the appropriate variable to request in the B08303 variable group documentation.
The link will pull up a table with the variable name and what data that variable would pull. Since we’re looking for people whose estimated commute time is 90+ min, the variable name is B08303_013E and the label (aka definition) is Estimate!!Total:!!90 or more minutes.
How can I write this query to return the ratio between group commuters vs total commuters?
How did we come to the conclusion that we need to use B08303_002E in our query?