📅 2023-03-06 — Session: Enhanced Data Visualization and Food Data Processing
🕒 01:10–03:00
🏷️ Labels: Python, Data Visualization, Pandas, CSV, Nutrition
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The primary goal of this session was to enhance data visualization techniques using Python libraries and to process food nutritional data for meal planning.
Key Activities
- Date Formatting in Pandas: Implemented
strftimeto format dates as year-week labels. - Code Optimization: Improved Python code organization for data visualization using seaborn and matplotlib.
- [[Data Visualization]] Enhancements: Added horizontal lines in Matplotlib plots and rotated x-axis labels in Seaborn boxplots.
- Polynomial Fitting: Utilized NumPy to fit a second-order polynomial to data.
- Food Data Export: Exported nutritional data to a CSV file using pandas.
- CSV Processing: Developed functions to process CSV files for calculating macros and meal planning.
Achievements
- Successfully formatted dates for better week separation in datasets.
- Improved readability and maintainability of data visualization code.
- Enhanced data visualization with additional plotting techniques.
- Efficiently exported and processed food data for nutritional analysis.
Pending Tasks
- Further refine the meal planning algorithm to incorporate more dietary preferences and constraints.