Once you can get a command-line on your Google Cloud instance, install the Anaconda stuff.
Then you can run your code on GC yay! Stephen will shortly have a month-able collector.py script (#69). If you're going to run a program for a while and don't want it to quit, precede the command with the word "nohup" and put an ampersand ("&") at the end of the command. For instance, you could type: "nohup python collector.py politics &".
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