Becoming a LoL Analyst: An Introduction to using the Riot API

A slightly different one for you guys this week — instead of showing you a statistical analysis, I’ll be teaching you how to do statistical analysis! We’re starting this series off with an introduction to the Riot API. You’ll find everything you need here to create your very first account analyser.

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Before we start…

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Do I need to know how to code? No! Of course, it helps. But please, don’t let this put you off. When I first looked at the Riot API I didn’t know anything about coding and now I do it as a full time profession. You can learn the basics of coding AND the basics of the API at the same time. I won’t write a guide on learning Python since there’s millions out there, but hopefully the guide will give you the basics and you can go off and learn the rest yourself.

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If you are new to Python, I recommend using Jupyter Notebooks — since it makes understanding what the code is doing a lot easier. You can download it here:

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