📅 2025-07-15 — Session: Audit and Revamp of Data Projects
🕒 02:15–02:45
🏷️ Labels: Project Audit, Data Processing, Population Estimation, Census, Strategic Planning
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to audit and revamp existing data projects, focusing on strategic value, technical health, and potential improvements.
Key Activities
- Strategic Project Audit: Developed a checklist to audit old projects, assessing inventory, strategic value, technical health, and upgrade paths.
- Project Analysis for samplerCensoARG: Conducted a comprehensive analysis of the samplerCensoARG project, detailing its architecture, technical health, and suggesting a refactor plan.
- Project Concept for Argentina Population Projection: Outlined the creation of a new repository for Argentina’s population data, including historical census data and projections.
- Modeling Techniques for Population Estimation: Reviewed various modeling techniques for estimating population data, focusing on demographic mechanics and administrative boundaries.
- INDEC’s Population Estimation Methods: Analyzed INDEC’s methods for small-area population estimation, detailing their formulations and assumptions.
- Scaling INDEC Population Curves: Proposed a method to adjust INDEC’s projected population curves to align with 2022 census data.
- Scaffold for Rescaled Population Projection Project: Outlined a directory and file structure for a project correcting INDEC population projections using 2022 census data.
Achievements
- Completed a strategic audit framework for existing projects.
- Developed a detailed analysis and refactor strategy for samplerCensoARG.
- Established a conceptual framework for a new population projection repository.
- Reviewed and documented various population estimation techniques.
Pending Tasks
- Further documentation and audits for samplerCensoARG.
- Implementation of the proposed population projection repository.
- Refinement of population estimation models and scaling methods.