📅 2025-08-21 — Session: Consolidation and Documentation of MDX and Data Processes
🕒 16:30–18:40
🏷️ Labels: MDX, Documentation, Data Integration, Workflow, Consolidation
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to consolidate and document processes related to MDX parsing, data documentation, and integration workflows, focusing on improving efficiency and maintaining data integrity.
Key Activities
- MDX Parsing and Documentation: Addressed common parsing issues in MDX files and provided instructions for maintaining workflow diagrams and documentation.
- MDX Structure Planning: Developed a mental map and invariants for organizing MDX documentation, including folder structures and risk control measures.
- CoreRef MDX Workflow: Proposed a three-pass workflow for transforming notes into MDX pages for CoreRef, including document consolidation and publication.
- Censo 2010 Harmonization: Documented the harmonization process of Censo 2010 variables with EPH, highlighting incomplete mappings.
- DBML Deduplication: Outlined the process for deduplication and consolidation of DBML schemas to ensure data integrity.
- Poverty Metrics Consolidation: Detailed the consolidation of poverty metrics at the household level, including QA rules and usage examples.
- Geospatial MDX Consolidation: Consolidated geospatial geometries and key variables into an MDX page, including data handling pipelines.
- File Naming Documentation: Reviewed and identified gaps in the documentation of file naming schemes related to synthetic population data.
- MDX Stubs for Integration: Provided stubs for integrating MDX with existing DBML definitions, focusing on naming conventions and QA.
- Methods Taxonomy Plan: Outlined a plan for organizing methods into a flat directory to enhance navigation and consolidation.
- Temporal Toolkit and Extrapolation Policy: Presented the first draft of the temporal toolkit and consolidated extrapolation policies, including reproducible code snippets.
- ETL Guide with Dask and Pandas: Offered a practical guide for large-scale sampling and merging using Dask and Pandas.
- JSON Policies for ETL: Detailed the MDX page for ETL JSON policies, focusing on efficiency and export contracts.
- Notebook Refactoring Guide: Provided guidelines for notebook structure and modularization to improve reproducibility.
- Visualization Practices: Documented best practices for creating stylized charts and diagrams using Mapbox and Graphviz.
- Geospatial Integration: Documented methods for integrating socio-economic data with official geometries using GeoPandas.
Achievements
- Consolidated multiple documentation and workflow processes into coherent guides and templates.
- Enhanced the organization and clarity of MDX and data documentation.
- Established clear guidelines and templates for future data integration and documentation efforts.
Pending Tasks
- Further refinement of MDX stubs and integration policies.
- Completion of missing file naming documentation.
- Expansion of temporal toolkit annotations for future extrapolations.