📅 2023-06-11 — Session: Processed Afrobarometer and Chinese projects data
🕒 09:00–09:45
🏷️ Labels: Data Processing, Afrobarometer, Chinese Projects, Spatial Analysis, Data Aggregation
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to review and enhance data processing scripts for Afrobarometer and Chinese projects, focusing on spatial analysis, data cleaning, and aggregation techniques.
Key Activities
- Reviewed a script for processing Afrobarometer data, including loading data, intersecting with administrative areas, and generating outputs like intersection files and maps.
- Summarized challenges and techniques in handling spatial data, data cleaning, and public opinion analysis.
- Analyzed data processing challenges for Chinese projects, focusing on integration, standardization, and geolocation.
- Detailed a script for intersecting investment points with administrative areas using GeoJSON, addressing spatial analysis and data management challenges.
- Analyzed a script for preprocessing data from the ‘05 - Investments’ directory, focusing on data aggregation and cleaning.
- Reviewed the
aggregate_csv_GIDfunction for aggregating CSV data by geographical identifiers and time periods.
Achievements
- Clarified the steps and challenges involved in processing Afrobarometer and Chinese projects data.
- Enhanced understanding of spatial analysis and data aggregation techniques.
Pending Tasks
- Further refine data cleaning and standardization processes for improved efficiency.
- Explore additional methods for spatial data integration and analysis.