📅 2023-03-16 — Session: Analyzed World Bank project data for job investments

🕒 20:35–21:00
🏷️ Labels: World Bank, Data Analysis, Pandas, Optimization, Job Investments
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to explore and analyze World Bank project data to identify job-related investments in Africa and Asia. This involved using Python libraries like pandas and datetime for data manipulation.

Key Activities

  • Data Analysis Setup: Initiated a notebook for analyzing World Bank projects, focusing on job-related investments in Africa and Asia.
  • Title Suggestions: Generated a list of suggested titles for files related to World Bank job-related investments.
  • Data Processing: Executed Python scripts using pandas to load, process, and filter World Bank project data, specifically targeting projects approved after January 1, 2000, in Africa and Asia.
  • Project Analysis: Analyzed project data to display counts of projects by region and lending instrument, and examined project development objectives.
  • Sampling and Export: Created dataframes for project and location information, and exported results to CSV files.
  • Optimization: Improved data processing efficiency by optimizing dataframe merging and grouping operations.

Achievements

  • Successfully processed and analyzed World Bank project data, focusing on job-related investments in Africa and Asia.
  • Optimized data processing scripts for better performance and efficiency.

Pending Tasks

  • Further analysis on the impact of these investments on job creation in specific regions.
  • Integration of additional data sources for a more comprehensive analysis.