What I am trying to do is extract elevation data from a google maps API along a path specified by latitude and longitude coordinates as follows:
from urllib2
The problem is that you have several columns in the data frame that contain dicts with smaller dicts inside them. Useful Json is often heavily nested. I have been writing small functions that pull the info I want out into a new column. That way I have it in the format that I want to use.
for row in range(len(data)):
#First I load the dict (one at a time)
n = data.loc[row,'dict_column']
#Now I make a new column that pulls out the data that I want.
data.loc[row,'new_column'] = n.get('key')