📅 2025-08-19 — Session: Consolidated TOC and Data for Poverty Atlas

🕒 08:35–09:30
🏷️ Labels: TOC, Atlas Of Poverty, Data Consolidation, Implementation Guides, Literature Harvesting
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to consolidate various components of the Atlas of Poverty, including TOC deltas, Part 1 consolidation, and implementation guides, while exploring recent research on tabular data techniques and poverty methodologies.

Key Activities

  • Consolidated TOC deltas by book and section, integrating geographic references and publication patterns.
  • Completed consolidation of Part 1 of the Atlas of Poverty, ensuring structured and non-repetitive data organization.
  • Developed a unified TOC for Part 1, focusing on functional clarity and thematic organization.
  • Created Book 2 with implementation guides, including ETL playbooks and poverty metrics.
  • Outlined a strategy for authoring data documentation, with templates and author-level contracts.
  • Compiled recent research queries on tabular data techniques, including autoencoders and diffusion models.
  • Designed a targeted literature harvester for academic papers using OpenAlex and Crossref.

Achievements

  • Successfully consolidated and organized critical sections of the Atlas of Poverty.
  • Developed a comprehensive authoring strategy for data documentation.
  • Identified and documented recent research insights and methodologies for poverty measurement.

Pending Tasks

  • Implement the literature harvester framework and test its retrieval effectiveness.
  • Further explore and integrate recent research findings into the Atlas documentation.