📅 2024-08-11 — Session: Integrated GitHub Actions for Poverty Atlas Project
🕒 19:55–20:50
🏷️ Labels: Github Actions, Automation, Poverty Atlas, Machine Learning, Error Handling
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to integrate updated machine learning models from the encuestador-de-hogares repository into the poverty atlas project, utilizing GitHub Actions for automating data processing and recalculating poverty metrics.
Key Activities
- Workflow Integration: Detailed the necessary Jupyter Notebooks and GitHub Actions for reprocessing data.
- Error Resolution: Addressed GitHub token permissions errors by creating a Personal Access Token (PAT) and modifying workflows.
- Token Configuration: Configured PAT scopes to enable repository dispatch events.
- Troubleshooting: Systematically resolved ‘Bad credentials’ and 403 errors by verifying token scopes, repository permissions, and API endpoints.
- Secrets Management: Managed and utilized secrets in GitHub repositories to ensure secure handling of sensitive information.
Achievements
- Successfully outlined and implemented a workflow for integrating machine learning models into the poverty atlas project.
- Resolved multiple GitHub-related errors, improving automation reliability.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing and validation of the integrated workflows to ensure seamless automation.
- Monitoring and updating PATs and secrets as needed to maintain security and functionality.