If you've ever been curious about how to use Python to analyse petition data, I've put together this very basic step by step tutorial to get you started and I've included all the Python code. Hope you find it useful!

Cont... I've documented my initial analysis focusing on Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP), Python code and all. You can see it by following the link in the post above; let me know if you find it useful or have any feedback :)