📅 2023-12-20 — Session: Refactored and Optimized Python Data Scripts

🕒 13:20–14:55
🏷️ Labels: Python, Data Processing, Code Refactoring, Optimization, Jupyter Notebooks
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal:

The session aimed to refactor and optimize Python scripts related to data processing and visualization, specifically focusing on improving readability, maintainability, and efficiency.

Key Activities:

  • Revised a prompt for Jupyter Notebook analysis to enhance code functionality and integration.
  • Proposed a restructuring plan for economic network analysis notebooks to enhance modularity and coherence.
  • Refactored Python code for data processing using Dask and Pandas to improve maintainability.
  • Streamlined data visualization notebooks, focusing on degree distribution plots with Pandas and Matplotlib.
  • Debugged and corrected code for plotting degree distributions, addressing runtime warnings and errors.
  • Improved the structure of data preparation scripts for better organization and modularization.
  • Developed efficient methods for counting rows in large data files using Python and Bash.
  • Added comments to Python code cells to enhance readability and understanding.
  • Modularized large data processing scripts into smaller functions for better clarity and reuse.

Achievements:

  • Enhanced the readability and maintainability of Python scripts through refactoring and modularization.
  • Successfully debugged and optimized data visualization and processing scripts.
  • Improved the structure and coherence of Jupyter notebooks for economic analysis.

Pending Tasks:

  • Further testing and validation of refactored scripts in different environments.
  • Implementation of the proposed restructuring plan for economic network analysis notebooks.