Google

A client wanted an easy way to quickly view upcoming event lists for any of their G Suite domain’s Google Resource Calendars. I tried keeping the solution entirely within R by using the googleAuthR package but domain-wide delegated authentication didn’t work properly for me so I reverted to Python. Without too much anguish I wrote a working parameterized script that returns Google resource calendar event details based on resource calendar ID and event count script arguments.

Google Data Studio is a basic, yet functional report building and dashboard service for when you don’t need or want the power of something like RStudio Shiny, Power BI or Tableau. It has many data connectors and is tightly integrated into Google’s authentication ecosystem. I recently used it to build a simple yet effective business intelligence dashboard report for a client that saved them significant annual spend on a content analytics service.