📅 2023-08-17 — Session: Refactored and Documented Poverty Data Processing Functions

🕒 07:05–11:45
🏷️ Labels: Python, Data Processing, Poverty Metrics, DBML, Code Refactoring
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to enhance and document Python functions for processing income data into poverty metrics, ensuring modularity, clarity, and efficiency.

Key Activities

  • Developed a Python function to transform income data into poverty metrics, including comprehensive documentation and tracking mechanisms.
  • Suggested descriptive function names to improve clarity in application development.
  • Resolved a TypeError related to integer division by converting a string to a float.
  • Calculated mean values for float columns in a DataFrame to provide statistical insights.
  • Prepared data by splitting income datasets and incorporating geographical merges.
  • Analyzed datasets to identify common and unique columns, sizes, and unique values.
  • Reviewed functions for consistency, syntax errors, and improved documentation.
  • Refined Python scripts for quarterly poverty data processing, adjusting arguments and file-saving logic.
  • Proposed and corrected DBML schema for poverty datasets, emphasizing correct foreign key relationships.
  • Refactored code to enhance modularity, readability, and maintainability.
  • Restructured Python code to efficiently process synthetic population and income data.
  • Defined DBML structure for poverty datasets, including table definitions and relationships.
  • Merged datasets using pandas with examples of inner and outer merges.

Achievements

  • Successfully documented and refined functions for poverty data processing.
  • Improved code modularity and readability through refactoring.
  • Established a clear DBML schema for poverty datasets.
  • Enhanced data analysis capabilities with statistical insights.

Pending Tasks

  • Further review and testing of the refactored functions to ensure robustness.
  • Additional documentation for newly created functions to maintain clarity.