FOSS Analytics Toolkit: Getting started

This is a brief tutorial to show how to quickly start using the tool and showcase a few of the functions.

I don’t want to get into the weeds with Python. You can choose how to use it. You can have a new virtual environment, a fresh server in AWS, etc… The only thing that matters is that you have at least 16GB of RAM if you plan to work with big datasets and Python 3.9.

Salesforce SFDXCLI

You need to have Salesforce CLI installed. Get it from here: https://developer.salesforce.com/tools/sfdxcli

Choose your platform, download and install

After the installation, open a terminal and run:

sfdx update

Windows Terminal

Only if you are on Windows, I recommend using the Windows Terminal based on PowerShell. You can get it from here: