datafun-02-automation

Automate the creation and management of standardized data folders for analytics projects.

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Overview

This project automates the setup of multiple folder structures for organizing data files in Python. It is a fork of the original https://github.com/haileylhanson/datafun-02-automation and expands on the that project initialization to support five folder variations for different data types and organizational needs.

Features

• Automated creation of standardized, timed, year-based, named, and prefixed folders
• Easy setup and execution
• Designed for data analytics and automation workflows

Folder Types

• named_folders/: Contains folders for different data formats (CSV, Excel, JSON)
• prefixed_folders_lc/: Output folders with format prefixes (output--csv, output--excel, output--json)
• standardized_folders/: Folders for geographic regions (africa, asia, europe, etc.)
• timed_folders/: Folders named by time or sequence (folder_1, folder_2, folder_3)
• year_folders/: Folders for each year (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• See requirements.txt for dependencies

Setup

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/KHenn22/datafun-02-automation.git
   cd datafun-02-automation

2. Create and activate a virtual environment

   python3 -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies

   python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
   python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

To automate folder creation, run:

python3 dirbot_hennelly.py