Structured Documentation and Data Processing for Peronómetro

📅 2023-05-23 — Session: Structured Documentation and Data Processing for Peronómetro

🕒 19:20–22:10
🏷️ Labels: Documentation, Data Processing, Python, Command Line, Peronómetro Electoral
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to structure project documentation and process election data for the ‘Peronómetro Electoral’ project.

Key Activities

• Developed guidelines for creating comprehensive project documentation, covering sections like introduction, installation, usage, data description, analysis methodology, webpage features, examples, troubleshooting, contributing guidelines, and references.
• Provided an overview of the ‘Peronómetro Electoral’ project, focusing on data processing and web visualization of electoral data, including objectives, data sources, and analysis methods.
• Executed Python scripting for searching specific strings in files, and used grep for recursive string searches in the terminal.
• Implemented a command to list large files and update the .gitignore file accordingly.
• Manipulated data using Python, sorting a DataFrame by ‘votos_cantidad’ and grouping by multiple columns to select top entries.

Achievements

• Established a structured approach for project documentation.
• Clarified the project scope and data processing methods for the ‘Peronómetro Electoral’.
• Enhanced file search and management practices using Python and command-line tools.
• Improved data manipulation techniques with Python’s Pandas library.

Pending Tasks

• Further refine the project documentation with additional examples and troubleshooting sections.
• Explore more efficient data processing methods for large datasets.