📅 2025-02-28 — Session: BigQuery Public Access and Email Search Setup
🕒 00:20–02:05
🏷️ Labels: Bigquery, Public Access, MBOX, Elasticsearch, Troubleshooting
📂 Project: Teaching
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to facilitate student access to census data through BigQuery and set up an efficient email search system using MBOX files.
Key Activities
- BigQuery Instructions: Provided a guide for querying census data in BigQuery, including sample queries and troubleshooting tips.
- Public Access Setup: Outlined steps to grant public access to a BigQuery dataset for student use, including IAM permissions verification and modification.
- Testing Access: Verified the public access setup to ensure students can query the dataset.
- Email Format Understanding: Explained Gmail’s MBOX format and recommended converting it to a database for better analysis.
- Elasticsearch Setup: Provided a guide to set up Elasticsearch for fast email search using MBOX files.
- Troubleshooting: Addressed multiple issues related to the
mbox-to-json
tool, including import errors, installation issues, and command syntax.
Achievements
- Successfully provided instructions and verified steps for granting public access to BigQuery datasets.
- Set up a framework for converting MBOX files to Elasticsearch for efficient querying.
- Resolved several troubleshooting issues related to the
mbox-to-json
tool.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing of Elasticsearch setup with larger datasets.
- Continuous monitoring of BigQuery dataset access by students.