To connect Datafold to your BigQuery project, you will need to create a service account for Datafold to use.

1. Navigate to the Google Developers Console. Before proceeding, click on the drop-down to the left of the search bar and select the project to which you want to connect:

NOTE: If you do not see the project you would like to connect to listed in the drop-down, click on the account switcher in the upper right corner of the window and ensure you are logged in to a Google account that is a member of the project.

2. Click on the hamburger menu in the upper left and select IAM & Admin and then Service accounts.

3. Click Create New Service Account button and give it a name:

4. Under Project Role, add BigQuery Job User and BigQuery Data Viewer roles:

5. On the next screen, select to create a new JSON key for your service account. You will use it for creating BigQuery connection in Datafold:

6. Create a dataset "datafold_temp" that will be used by Datafold for materializing intermediate results and to improve performance of the analysis.

7. Grant the newly created service account BigQuery Data Owner role in the "datafold_temp" dataset: