Jan-26-2017, 01:15 PM
Hi, newbie programmer myself, but i have tackled this myself. This is not too complex, getting the data out is quite easy, it is conditioning it so that it can be read with your script in order to filter it that is the difficult part. The biggest issue I have had with using external data is trying to get as much of the data as possible. NaN is a really annoying data type used to tell you that a piece of data is not a number (how useful is that?) That aside, there are some really good tutorials out there, google "python data analysis tutorial" and do the video search and you should find a series that will give you what you are after, you will be wanting pandas and numpy python libraries installed. Good luck.