juansacollins / pdf_analytics_report

Python project with the objective to learn Analytics Report generation using PyFPDF

Generate Analytics Report

This repo goes along with my YouTube video "Generating an Analytics Report (PDF) in Python". In it we learn how to use the fpdf library to create a report like the one you see above.

Link to video: https://youtu.be/UmN2_R4KEg8

Setup

You'll want to download all of this code locally. The easiest way to do that is cloning the repo.

$ git clone https://github.com/KeithGalli/generate-analytics-report.git

If you have any trouble doing this, you can download the zip folder of this repo and then extract the files to a local file. Once you have all the files cloned locally, you should make sure you have all the necessary libraries installed.

$ pip install fpdf
$ pip install pandas numpy matplotlib
$ pip install plotly
$ pip install -U kaleido

If you run into an error with NumPy, changing the version to 1.19.3 fixed the issue for me

$ pip install numpy==1.19.3

To test if everything is set up properly, try running python generate_report.py. You should get a fresh report file. You'll have to change helper.py to read from the online version of the data if you want to access the previous day (uncomment the BASE_PATH URL and comment BASE_PATH='./data'). You will also have to comment out the hard coded date at the bottom of generate_report.py file. I saved it this way so not too many unneccesary requests to the GitHub server were made while testing.