Lawrence:

Have you considered deleting the resource objects before you deploy a new one?

Check out DeleteObject[].

Hi Lawrence,

Is there a reason for not using CloudPut and CloudGet as suggested by @Jan Poeschko

So, I'm now trying use ResourceData to push my data into the cloud. Then I want to reference that data in another NB to process it. Seems simple enough.

importSpreadsheet[] := Module[{items, names, data, assoc},
   items = 
    Import["/Users/wkr/Documents/Elections/Closing Graph.csv", 
     "CSV"];
   names = items // First;
   data = items // Rest;
   assoc = AssociationThread[names, #] & /@ data;
  Dataset[assoc]
   ];
buildDataResource[ds_] := Module[{},
   ResourceObject[Association[
     "ResourceType" -> "DataResource",
     "Name" -> "ElectionCloseDataset",
     "Content" -> ds,
     "Description" -> 
      "Dataset created from the Closing Graph Spreadsheet"
     ]]];
storeGraphDataset[] := Module[{ds},
   ds = importSpreadsheet[];
   buildDataResource[ds]
   ];

Now, generate a resource object and deploy to the cloud

ro = storeGraphDataset[];
CloudDeploy[ro, "ElectionCloseDataset"]

The above seems to work.

Now, in order to use this resource, I want get back the dataset portion of the resource, with code in a different NB.

ro = ResourceSearch["ElectionCloseDataset", ResourceObject]

I get back the resource object but none of my attempts to return the dataset that should be in the ResourceObject works.

What is the correct syntax?

I've been playing around with WL ResourceObjects and related functions. I'm guessing I might need a notebook to pull in the data and push it out to the cloud. Then a notebook to find the resource objects in the cloud, pull it in and run the processing.

I think I made a mistake using New -> Repository Item -> Data Repository Item to create a resource object. Seems too complicated for what I wanted. It's a notebook template for documentation of the data, and there is a button to deploy and another to submit. The submit became a request to ask Wolfram to make the data available to others as though my data would be of interest to anyone but me. I really didn't want to do that.

Simple and stupid is all I can muster at the present.

With Mathematica, I'm not yet much of a risk-taker to just try something and see if it works. I don't have the knowledge to know what problems I could be causing when stuff doesn't work and how to debug it when stuff doesn't work. I don't want to clutter up Wolfram's cloud with my poor decisions.