README.md

Google Spreadsheet Automation

A bit about me...

Hello! I'm a machine learning engineer at Civis Analytics where I

1. Developed/ship our house forecasting model
   
2. Created a resource allocation service/dashboard
   
3. Manage modeling-as-a-service products for our clients
   

What is this repo?

In progressive politics its important to get out numbers and get eyes on them quickly. Autoupdating spreadsheets are a convenient way to track important tables in an accessible way + maintain version history. This repo is meant as a simple boilerplate to set you up to do this fast.

Steps

0. Set up your gcp (won't cover this)

1. Create a service account in your gcp
   a. Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/
   b. Search service accounts
   c. + Create service account and name it
   d. Click on your created service account and Add Key
   e. Create New Key, Json, and save it in your bash_profile with format
   

   export SA_PASSWORD=cat << EOF <paste json> EOF
   

2. Create a spreadsheet by setting CREATE_NEW_SPREADSHEET=True in main.py and write df to sheet
   

3. Set CREATE_NEW_SPREADSHEET=False to keep your old sheet, update link value, and choose conditional formatting
   

Questions?

@ashe_cs
[email protected]