inClassNov03.md

In class assignment (Nov-3)

This is a group assignment

Please create a notebook called InClassNov3.ipynb in your repo and make sure that you list all the names at the top of the notebook

BeautifulSoup + Pandas:

1. You are required to write a function that scrapes the Wikipedia article with the list of countries by population (Main Table) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density). We do not want to collect the data related to "World" (Find a way to skip these lines). Collect the following information:

• Country name
• Area (km2)
• Area (mi2)
• Population

2. Put your data into a Pandas Dataframe!!! Make sure you have the numeric columns as numbers

3. Provide a summary of your data (average, mean, etc.)

4. Calculate the correlation between your columns

5. Plot a scatterplot (population vs. area (km2)