📅 2023-04-16 — Session: Integrated Google Colab with VS Code and CSV Processing

🕒 21:40–22:40
🏷️ Labels: Google Colab, Visual Studio Code, Python, Pandas, Csv Processing, Regex
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to explore integration techniques between Google Colab and Visual Studio Code, and to enhance CSV file processing using Python’s pandas library.

Key Activities

  • Integration Insight: Discussed the integration of Google Colab and Visual Studio Code, highlighting extensions that facilitate enhanced coding workflows.
  • CSV Processing with Pandas: Provided a step-by-step guide and code snippets for reading and processing CSV files using pandas, focusing on selecting specific columns and looping through multiple files.
  • Regex for Data Extraction: Demonstrated the use of regular expressions to extract roots from variable names in CSV files, including error handling and pattern modifications to ensure robustness.
  • Data Manipulation: Showcased techniques for filtering and saving CSV data, converting roots to lowercase, and concatenating geographic columns in a DataFrame.

Achievements

  • Successfully integrated Google Colab with Visual Studio Code for improved coding workflows.
  • Developed robust Python scripts for CSV file processing, including error handling and regex-based data extraction.

Pending Tasks

  • Further exploration of advanced integration features between Google Colab and Visual Studio Code.
  • Optimization of CSV processing scripts for larger datasets.