The title is a little clickbait-y but I love the content! Great job building something useful for you!

I’m a Python newbie and am pretty proud of the tiny program I built as well.

I was running some weekly product sales reports manually. The manual process was as follows:

1. Download and open 7 CSV files (one for each day).
2. Since the CSVs had data for two products in them, I had to filter through the data to split it up correctly.
3. Copy and paste the relevant data from each CSV file to separate Google Sheets for each product. Each CSV had a bunch of extraneous data that was not useful.
4. Add the date to each corresponding line of data.
5. Run the reports and build graphs in Google Sheets.

I wrote a Python script in Jupyter Notebook that automated steps 2–5 above.

I still had to download the CSV files (working on automating that), but then the Python script would:

1. Look into a specific folder for the CSV files
2. Parse out only the relevant data from each CSV file and concatenate into a dataframe
3. Parse the dates out of each filename and add to the dataframe
4. Separate the data for the two products into separate dataframes
5. Push the data of the relevant dataframe to their respective GSheets

I’m working on doing all of the analysis in Python as well.

I found that building something that is relevant to me and can automate processes is the best way to learn.

Thanks!