Better error message when initializing with invisible columns

[danielhuppmann]

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Description of PR

Per a user support request for the Scenario Explorer upload, we noticed that an xlsx file which has an "invisible" column (e.g., a whitespace in a column to the right of the data) raises a generic

ValueError: IamDataFrame constructor not properly called!

This is not really helpful to users.

This PR restructures the try-except such that a user will receive a more intelligible error message including the column name:

ValueError: Empty cells in `data` (columns: 'unnamed: 7'):
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Codecov Report

Merging #634 (d5e95e1) into main (38897ff) will increase coverage by 0.0%.
The diff coverage is 95.4%.

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[phackstock]

Since this is a draft PR, should I review this or is it not ready yet?

[phackstock]

Looks good overall.
A few small comments below.

[phackstock]

Looks good to me.
One small stylistic comment below.