📅 2025-06-22 — Session: Modularized ETL Pipeline and Unicode Handling
🕒 21:20–21:55
🏷️ Labels: ETL, Unicode, Data Processing, Python, Journalism
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to modularize an ETL pipeline for idea enrichment and handle Unicode escapes in JSONL files.
Key Activities
- Modularized the ETL pipeline by defining functions and adding output actions for enriched data.
- Addressed Unicode escape sequences in JSONL files using pandas, ensuring proper saving and loading.
- Implemented a Python code snippet to fix escaped Unicode sequences in specific columns of dataframes.
- Developed a structured approach to generate idea digests from a DataFrame, including creating summary blocks in Markdown format.
- Conducted a critical review of a journalistic digest structure and provided actionable recommendations.
Achievements
- Successfully modularized the ETL pipeline, facilitating easier debugging and downstream usage.
- Resolved Unicode handling issues in JSONL files, ensuring accurate data representation.
- Created a digest generator for article clusters, enhancing data summarization processes.
Pending Tasks
- Further refinement of the journalistic digest structure based on the critical review.
- Finalization of editorial planning briefs for articles on educational bonuses in Peru and ANSES in Argentina.