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Fix for UnicodeDecodeError when loading zip files ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ If you're getting an error when loading demographics_clean.zip or financials_features.zip, it's because the zips contain .parquet files not CSVs. Here's the fix:
7 Apr 2026, 08:57 ยท 0

import zipfile, pandas as pd

for z in ['demographics_clean.zip', 'financials_features.zip']:

with zipfile.ZipFile(z) as zf:

for name in zf.namelist():

if name.endswith('.parquet'):

zf.extract(name, '.')

demo = pd.read_parquet('demographics_clean.parquet')

fin = pd.read_parquet('financials_features.parquet')

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