📅 2023-08-03 — Session: Enhanced Name Extraction and Data Manipulation in Python
🕒 21:05–21:45
🏷️ Labels: Python, Text Processing, Data Manipulation, Markdown, HTML
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to enhance text processing capabilities by refining name extraction methods and manipulating data using Python.
Key Activities
- Developed Python functions to extract proper names from unstructured text using heuristics and regular expressions.
- Improved the name extraction code to handle capitalized word chains and filter out false positives.
- Created a new DataFrame from existing data by iterating through rows and matching names in descriptions.
- Generated a markdown report in Argentine Spanish and formatted dates using Spanish locale settings.
- Converted markdown content to HTML and enhanced the output with Bootstrap for improved appearance.
Achievements
- Successfully implemented and refined name extraction techniques using Python.
- Developed methods for data manipulation with Pandas, including creating new DataFrames based on name matches.
- Generated formatted reports in markdown and HTML, applying localization for Spanish.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing of name extraction functions with diverse datasets to ensure robustness.
- Exploration of additional styling options for HTML reports using CSS frameworks like Bootstrap.