📅 2025-02-06 — Session: Enhanced financial data processing and visualization

🕒 18:50–21:20
🏷️ Labels: Python, Financial Reporting, Data Visualization, CSS, Pandas
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to improve financial data processing, visualization, and reporting techniques using Python and CSS.

Key Activities

  • Best Practices: Reviewed best practices for managing cumulative vs. net variables in financial data to ensure accurate insights.
  • Financial Analysis: Conducted a comprehensive analysis of current financial variables, identifying key metrics for monitoring.
  • Accumulator Function: Designed an accumulator function in Python for transforming Pandas data into cumulative forms.
  • Plotting Functions: Created specialized Python functions for visualizing financial time series data.
  • Financial Monitoring: Outlined strategies for monitoring key financial indicators in a rental business.
  • Data Filtering: Implemented a method to filter DataFrame columns by absolute sum using Python.
  • Ledger Enhancements: Analyzed and suggested improvements for monthly ledger reports.
  • Code Refactor: Refactored Python code to generate HTML-formatted financial reports.
  • CSS Styling: Enhanced the visual appeal of ledger reports with CSS.

Achievements

  • Developed Python functions for financial data transformation and visualization.
  • Improved monthly financial reporting with HTML and CSS styling.
  • Enhanced clarity and effectiveness of financial monitoring strategies.

Pending Tasks

  • Further enhancements to plotting functions for better visualization.
  • Additional CSS improvements for table styling in reports.