FastAPI for Data Science

***Participants are strongly encouraged to download the needed data from this Github repo and set up the environment prior to the start of the webinar ***

FastAPI has become a buzzword in the DevOps world. People are starting to use it and sooner or later it will become the new industry standard. If you want to learn how to build a data science API with this tool, this webinar is for you.

Our Data Scientist, Andrea Giussani, will briefly introduce what a FastAPI is, its pros and cons, and build a simple API with some toy data. At the end of this webinar, you will be able to independently build and run a Python-based API with FastAPI.

Requirement:
In order to be able to follow this webinar, an intermediate knowledge of Python is strongly recommended along with a basic exposure to APIs.

Agenda:
– Intro to FastAPI + pros and cons
– Use of the FastAPI class
– Specification of data types
– Running the API