Open Record Step 1: Choose a Question

Pick a question you actually want answered, then find public data that might answer it. Write the question down in one sentence, narrow enough that a number could settle it. Then find two sources: an API and a downloadable dataset. Make one request to the API by hand with curl and read the raw response before writing any code. Write down what you notice, including anything that is not the shape you expected. Most of this course is about that gap.