📅 2025-06-11 — Session: Enhanced Data Processing and Digest Generation

🕒 03:30–04:50
🏷️ Labels: Python, Data Processing, Markdown, File Management
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to enhance data processing capabilities and improve the generation of markdown digest files from DataFrames.

Key Activities

  • Enhanced a Python function for topic-based grouping in DataFrames, ensuring data integrity and consistent subgroup identification.
  • Revised strategy for DataFrame storage and markdown digest generation with improved file naming conventions.
  • Updated fetch_and_save_news() function to assign unique IDs to articles, improving downstream processing.
  • Proposed a new naming convention for CSV files generated during slicing, enhancing organization and traceability.
  • Refined functions for saving digest files, incorporating improved naming conventions and metadata collection.
  • Utilized glob to process CSV files and generate markdown digests with sanitized topics and structured output.
  • Enhanced markdown digest composition by including metadata such as links, publication dates, and sources.
  • Refined group splitting logic to ensure even distribution and consistent labeling of groups.
  • Fixed grouping logic in digest files to prevent mixing articles from different topics.
  • Updated date formatting in markdown files to include hours in 24-hour format.

Achievements

  • Successfully implemented enhancements in data processing and digest generation, improving the overall workflow and output quality.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing of the new file naming conventions and digest generation process to ensure robustness and accuracy.