Let's take a moment to walkthrough the tech.ml.dataset system
. This system was built
over the course of a few months in order to make working with columnar data easier
in the same manner as one would work with data.table
in R or pandas
in Python. While
it takes design inspiration from these sources it does not strive to be a copy in any
way but rather an extension to the core Clojure language that is built for good
performance when processing datasets of realistic sizes which in our case means
millions of rows and tens of columns.
Logically, a dataset is a map of column name to column data. Column data is typed so for instance you may have a column of 16 bit integers or 64 bit floating point numbers. Column names may be any java object and column values may be of the tech.datatype primitive, datetime, or objects. Data is stored contiguously in jvm arrays while missing values are indicated with bitsets.
Given this definition, the intention is to allow more or less normal flows familiar to most Clojure programmers:
sort-by
, filter
, group-by
are modified operations that operate on a
logical sequence of maps and an arbitrary function but return a new dataset.target
column.Dataset creation can happen in many ways. For data in csv, tsv, or sequence of maps
format there are two functions that differ in where the data is passed in, ->dataset
and ->>dataset
. These functions several arguments:
String
or InputStream
will be interpreted as a file (or gzipped file if it
ends with .gz) of tsv or csv data. The system will attempt to autodetect if this
is csv or tsv and then has some extensive engineering put into column datatype
detection mechanisms which can be overridden.user> (require '[tech.ml.dataset :as ds])
nil
user> (require '[tech.ml.dataset.column :as ds-col])
nil
user> (require '[tech.v2.datatype :as dtype])
nil
user> (ds/->dataset [{:a 1 :b 2} {:a 2 :c 3}])
_unnamed [2 3]:
| :a | :b | :c |
|----|----|----|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 2 | | 3 |
It is important to note that there are many options for parsing files. A few important ones are column whitelist/blacklists, num records, and ways to specify exactly how to parse the string data:
user> (ds/->dataset "https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz"
{:column-whitelist ["SalePrice" "1stFlrSF" "2ndFlrSF"]
:n-records 5})
data/ames-house-prices/train.csv [4 3]:
| SalePrice | 1stFlrSF | 2ndFlrSF |
|-----------|----------|----------|
| 208500 | 856 | 854 |
| 181500 | 1262 | 0 |
| 223500 | 920 | 866 |
| 140000 | 961 | 756 |
| 250000 | 1145 | 1053 |
user> (ds/->dataset "https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz"
{:column-whitelist ["SalePrice" "1stFlrSF" "2ndFlrSF"]
:n-records 5
:parser-fn :float32})
data/ames-house-prices/train.csv [4 3]:
| SalePrice | 1stFlrSF | 2ndFlrSF |
|-----------|----------|----------|
| 208500.0 | 856.0 | 854.0 |
| 181500.0 | 1262.0 | 0.0 |
| 223500.0 | 920.0 | 866.0 |
| 140000.0 | 961.0 | 756.0 |
| 250000.0 | 1145.0 | 1053.0 |
user> (ds/->dataset "https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz"
{:column-whitelist ["SalePrice" "1stFlrSF" "2ndFlrSF"]
:n-records 5
:parser-fn {"SalePrice" :float32}})
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz [4 3]:
| SalePrice | 1stFlrSF | 2ndFlrSF |
|-----------|----------|----------|
| 208500.0 | 856 | 854 |
| 181500.0 | 1262 | 0 |
| 223500.0 | 920 | 866 |
| 140000.0 | 961 | 756 |
| 250000.0 | 1145 | 1053 |
You can also supply a tuple of [datatype parse-fn]
if you have a specific
datatype and parse function you want to use. For datetime types parse-fn
can additionally be a DateTimeFormat format string or a DateTimeFormat object:
user> (def data (ds/head (ds/->dataset "https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/file_example_XLSX_1000.xlsx")))
#'user/data
user> data
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/file_example_XLSX_1000.xlsx [5 8]:
| column-0 | First Name | Last Name | Gender | Country | Age | Date | Id |
|----------|------------|-----------|--------|---------------|------|------------|--------|
| 1.0 | Dulce | Abril | Female | United States | 32.0 | 15/10/2017 | 1562.0 |
| 2.0 | Mara | Hashimoto | Female | Great Britain | 25.0 | 16/08/2016 | 1582.0 |
| 3.0 | Philip | Gent | Male | France | 36.0 | 21/05/2015 | 2587.0 |
| 4.0 | Kathleen | Hanner | Female | United States | 25.0 | 15/10/2017 | 3549.0 |
| 5.0 | Nereida | Magwood | Female | United States | 58.0 | 16/08/2016 | 2468.0 |
nil
user> ;; Note the Date actually didn't parse out because it is dd/MM/yyyy format:
user> (dtype/get-datatype (data "Date"))
:string
user> (def data (ds/head (ds/->dataset "https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/file_example_XLSX_1000.xlsx"
{:parser-fn {"Date" [:local-date "dd/MM/yyyy"]}})))
#'user/data
user> data
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/file_example_XLSX_1000.xlsx [5 8]:
| column-0 | First Name | Last Name | Gender | Country | Age | Date | Id |
|----------|------------|-----------|--------|---------------|------|------------|--------|
| 1.0 | Dulce | Abril | Female | United States | 32.0 | 2017-10-15 | 1562.0 |
| 2.0 | Mara | Hashimoto | Female | Great Britain | 25.0 | 2016-08-16 | 1582.0 |
| 3.0 | Philip | Gent | Male | France | 36.0 | 2015-05-21 | 2587.0 |
| 4.0 | Kathleen | Hanner | Female | United States | 25.0 | 2017-10-15 | 3549.0 |
| 5.0 | Nereida | Magwood | Female | United States | 58.0 | 2016-08-16 | 2468.0 |
user> (dtype/get-datatype (data "Date"))
:local-date
user> (def data (ds/head (ds/->dataset "https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/file_example_XLSX_1000.xlsx"
{:parser-fn {"Date" [:local-date "dd/MM/yyyy"]
"Id" :int32
0 :int32
"Age" :int16}})))
#'user/data
user> data
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/file_example_XLSX_1000.xlsx [5 8]:
| column-0 | First Name | Last Name | Gender | Country | Age | Date | Id |
|----------|------------|-----------|--------|---------------|-----|------------|------|
| 1 | Dulce | Abril | Female | United States | 32 | 2017-10-15 | 1562 |
| 2 | Mara | Hashimoto | Female | Great Britain | 25 | 2016-08-16 | 1582 |
| 3 | Philip | Gent | Male | France | 36 | 2015-05-21 | 2587 |
| 4 | Kathleen | Hanner | Female | United States | 25 | 2017-10-15 | 3549 |
| 5 | Nereida | Magwood | Female | United States | 58 | 2016-08-16 | 2468 |
A reference to what is possible is in parse-test.
Given a map of name->column data produce a new dataset. If column data is untyped (like a persistent vector) then the column datatype is either string or double, dependent upon the first entry of the column data sequence.
If the column data is one of the object numeric primitive types, so
Float
as opposed to float
, then missing elements will be marked as
missing and the default empty-value will be used in the primitive storage.
user> (ds/name-values-seq->dataset {:age [1 2 3 4 5]
:name ["a" "b" "c" "d" "e"]})
_unnamed [5 2]:
| :age | :name |
|------|-------|
| 1 | a |
| 2 | b |
| 3 | c |
| 4 | d |
| 5 | e |
Printing out datasets comes in several flavors. Datasets support multiline printing:
user> (require '[tech.v2.tensor :as dtt])
nil
user> (def test-tens (dtt/->tensor (partition 3 (range 9))))
#'user/test-tens
user> (ds/->dataset [{:a 1 :b test-tens}{:a 2 :b test-tens}])
_unnamed [2 2]:
| :a | :b |
|----|-------------------------------|
| 1 | #tech.v2.tensor<float64>[3 3] |
| | [[0.000 1.000 2.000] |
| | [3.000 4.000 5.000] |
| | [6.000 7.000 8.000]] |
| 2 | #tech.v2.tensor<float64>[3 3] |
| | [[0.000 1.000 2.000] |
| | [3.000 4.000 5.000] |
| | [6.000 7.000 8.000]] |
You can provide options to control printing via the metadata of the dataset:
user> (def tens-ds *1)
#'user/tens-ds
user> (with-meta tens-ds
(assoc (meta tens-ds)
:print-line-policy :single))
_unnamed [2 2]:
| :a | :b |
|----|-------------------------------|
| 1 | #tech.v2.tensor<float64>[3 3] |
| 2 | #tech.v2.tensor<float64>[3 3] |
This is especially useful when dealing with new datasets that may have large amounts of per-column data:
user> (require '[tech.io :as io])
nil
user> (def events-ds (-> (io/get-json "https://api.github.com/events"
:key-fn keyword)
(ds/->dataset)))
#'user/events-ds
user> (ds/head (with-meta events-ds
(assoc (meta events-ds)
:print-line-policy :single
:print-column-max-width 25)))
_unnamed [5 8]:
| :id | :type | :actor | :repo | :payload | :public | :created_at | :org |
|-------------|-------------|----------------|---------------------------|-----------------------|---------|----------------------|----------------|
| 12416500733 | CreateEvent | {:id 1391351, | {:id 62506473, | {:ref "mix-target", | true | 2020-05-22T18:21:21Z | |
| 12416500729 | PushEvent | {:id 10810283, | {:id 266179290, | {:push_id 5115363028, | true | 2020-05-22T18:21:21Z | |
| 12416500724 | PushEvent | {:id 1036482, | {:id 65323404, | {:push_id 5115363022, | true | 2020-05-22T18:21:21Z | {:id 12449437, |
| 12416500717 | ForkEvent | {:id 56911385, | {:id 249431040, | {:forkee | true | 2020-05-22T18:21:21Z | |
| 12416500714 | IssuesEvent | {:id 63518697, | {:id 247704958, :name "18 | {:action "closed", | true | 2020-05-22T18:21:21Z | {:id 6233994, |
The full list of possible options is provided in the documentation for dataset-data->str.
Dataset are implementations of clojure.lang.IPersistentMap
. They strictly
respect column ordering, however, unliked persistent maps.
user> (def new-ds (ds/->dataset [{:a 1 :b 2} {:a 2 :c 3}]))
#'user/new-ds
user> (first new-ds)
[:a #tech.ml.dataset.column<int64>[2]
:a
[1, 2, ]]
user> (new-ds :c)
#tech.ml.dataset.column<int64>[2]
:c
[, 3, ]
user> (ds-col/missing (new-ds :b))
#{1}
user> (ds-col/missing (new-ds :c))
#{0}
It is safe to print out very large columns. The system will only print out the first 20 or values. In this way it can be useful to get a feel for the data in a particular column.
Columns implement clojure.lang.Indexed
(provides nth) and also implement
clojure.lang.IFn
in the same manner as persistent vectors.
user> (ds/->dataset {:age [1 2 3 4 5]
:name ["a" "b" "c" "d" "e"]})
_unnamed [5 2]:
| :age | :name |
|------|-------|
| 1 | a |
| 2 | b |
| 3 | c |
| 4 | d |
| 5 | e |
user> (def nameage *1)
#'user/nameage
user> (require '[tech.v2.datatype :as dtype])
nil
user> (nth (nameage :age) 0)
1
user> (dtype/->reader (:age nameage))
[1 2 3 4 5]
user> (dtype/->reader (nameage :name))
["a" "b" "c" "d" "e"]
user> (dtype/->array-copy (nameage :age))
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
user> (type *1)
[J
user> (def name-col (nameage :age))
#'user/name-col
user> (name-col 0)
1
user> (name-col 1)
2
In the same vein, you can access entire rows of the dataset as a reader that converts the data either into a persistent vector in the same column-order as the dataset or a sequence of maps with each entry named. This type of conversion does not include any mapping to or from labelled values so as such represented the dataset as it is stored in memory:
user> (ds/value-reader nameage)
[[1.0 "a"] [2.0 "b"] [3.0 "c"] [4.0 "d"] [5.0 "e"]]
user> (ds/mapseq-reader nameage)
[{:age 1.0, :name "a"} {:age 2.0, :name "b"} {:age 3.0, :name "c"} {:age 4.0, :name "d"} {:age 5.0, :name "e"}]
The dataset system offers two methods to select subrects of information from the dataset. This results in a new dataset.
(def ames-ds (ds/->dataset "https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz"))
#'user/ames-ds
user> (ds/column-names ames-ds)
("Id"
"MSSubClass"
"MSZoning"
"LotFrontage"
...)
user> (ames-ds "KitchenQual")
#tech.ml.dataset.column<string>[1460]
KitchenQual
[Gd, TA, Gd, Gd, Gd, TA, Gd, TA, TA, TA, TA, Ex, TA, Gd, TA, TA, TA, TA, Gd, TA, ...]
user> (ames-ds "SalePrice")
#tech.ml.dataset.column<int32>[1460]
SalePrice
[208500, 181500, 223500, 140000, 250000, 143000, 307000, 200000, 129900, 118000, 129500, 345000, 144000, 279500, 157000, 132000, 149000, 90000, 159000, 139000, ...]
user> (ds/select ames-ds ["KitchenQual" "SalePrice"] [1 3 5 7 9])
[5 2]:
| KitchenQual | SalePrice |
|-------------+-----------|
| TA | 181500 |
| Gd | 140000 |
| TA | 143000 |
| TA | 200000 |
| TA | 118000 |
user> (ds/select-columns ames-ds ["KitchenQual" "SalePrice"])
[1460 2]:
| KitchenQual | SalePrice |
|-------------+-----------|
| Gd | 208500 |
| TA | 181500 |
| Gd | 223500 |
| Gd | 140000 |
| Gd | 250000 |
| TA | 143000 |
| Gd | 307000 |
| TA | 200000 |
| TA | 129900 |
...
user> (require '[tech.v2.datatype.functional :as dfn])
nil
user> (def small-ames (ds/head (ds/select-columns ames-ds ["KitchenQual" "SalePrice"])))
#'user/small-ames
user> small-ames
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz [5 2]:
| KitchenQual | SalePrice |
|-------------|-----------|
| Gd | 208500 |
| TA | 181500 |
| Gd | 223500 |
| Gd | 140000 |
| Gd | 250000 |
user> (assoc small-ames "SalePriceLog" (dfn/log (small-ames "SalePrice")))
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz [5 3]:
| KitchenQual | SalePrice | SalePriceLog |
|-------------|-----------|--------------|
| Gd | 208500 | 12.24769432 |
| TA | 181500 | 12.10901093 |
| Gd | 223500 | 12.31716669 |
| Gd | 140000 | 11.84939770 |
| Gd | 250000 | 12.42921620 |
user> (assoc small-ames "Range" (range) "Constant-Col" :a)
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz [5 4]:
| KitchenQual | SalePrice | Range | Constant-Col |
|-------------|-----------|-------|--------------|
| Gd | 208500 | 0 | :a |
| TA | 181500 | 1 | :a |
| Gd | 223500 | 2 | :a |
| Gd | 140000 | 3 | :a |
| Gd | 250000 | 4 | :a |
user> (dissoc small-ames "KitchenQual")
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz [5 1]:
| SalePrice |
|-----------|
| 208500 |
| 181500 |
| 223500 |
| 140000 |
| 250000 |
These are prefixed by ds
to differentiate them from the base clojure versions but
they do conceptually the same thing with the exception that they return new datasets
as opposed to sequences. The predicate/key-fn used by these functions are passed
sequences of maps but if you know you want to filter/sort-by/group-by a single
column it is more efficient to use the -column
versions of these functions.
In the case of ds-group-by-column
you then get a map of column value to
dataset container rows that had that column value.
user> (-> (ds/filter #(< 30000 (get % "SalePrice")) ames-ds)
(ds/select ["SalePrice" "KitchenQual"] (range 5)))
[5 2]:
| SalePrice | KitchenQual |
|-----------+-------------|
| 208500 | Gd |
| 181500 | TA |
| 223500 | Gd |
| 140000 | Gd |
| 250000 | Gd |
user> (-> (ds/sort-by-column "SalePrice" ames-ds)
(ds/select ["SalePrice" "KitchenQual"] (range 5)))
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz [5 2]:
| SalePrice | KitchenQual |
|-----------|-------------|
| 34900 | TA |
| 35311 | TA |
| 37900 | TA |
| 39300 | Fa |
| 40000 | TA |
user> (def group-map (->> (ds/select ames-ds ["SalePrice" "KitchenQual"] (range 20))
(ds/group-by #(get % "KitchenQual"))))
#'user/group-map
user> (keys group-map)
("Gd" "TA" "Ex")
user> (first group-map)
["Gd" [7 2]:
| SalePrice | KitchenQual |
|-----------+-------------|
| 208500 | Gd |
| 223500 | Gd |
| 140000 | Gd |
| 250000 | Gd |
| 307000 | Gd |
| 279500 | Gd |
| 159000 | Gd |
]
user> (def group-map (->> (ds/select ames-ds ["SalePrice" "KitchenQual"] (range 20))
(ds/group-by-column "KitchenQual")))
#'user/group-map
user> (keys group-map)
("Gd" "TA" "Ex")
user> (first group-map)
["Gd" Gd [7 2]:
| SalePrice | KitchenQual |
|-----------+-------------|
| 208500 | Gd |
| 223500 | Gd |
| 140000 | Gd |
| 250000 | Gd |
| 307000 | Gd |
| 279500 | Gd |
| 159000 | Gd |
]
Combining a group-by
variant with descriptive-stats
can quickly help break down
a dataset as it relates to a categorical value:
user> (->> (ds/select-columns ames-ds ["SalePrice" "KitchenQual" "BsmtFinSF1" "GarageArea"])
(ds/group-by-column "KitchenQual")
(map (fn [[k v-ds]]
(-> (ds/descriptive-stats v-ds)
(ds/set-dataset-name k)))))
(Ex [4 10]:
| :col-name | :datatype | :n-valid | :n-missing | :min | :mean | :mode | :max | :standard-deviation | :skew |
|-------------|-----------|----------|------------|---------|-----------|-------|----------|---------------------|-------------|
| BsmtFinSF1 | :int16 | 100 | 0 | 0.0 | 850.61 | | 5644.0 | 799.3833216 | 2.14350280 |
| GarageArea | :int16 | 100 | 0 | 0.0 | 706.43 | | 1418.0 | 236.2931861 | -0.18707598 |
| KitchenQual | :string | 100 | 0 | | | Ex | | | |
| SalePrice | :int32 | 100 | 0 | 86000.0 | 328554.67 | | 755000.0 | 120862.9425733 | 0.93681387 |
Fa [4 10]:
| :col-name | :datatype | :n-valid | :n-missing | :min | :mean | :mode | :max | :standard-deviation | :skew |
|-------------|-----------|----------|------------|---------|-----------------|-------|----------|---------------------|------------|
| BsmtFinSF1 | :int16 | 39 | 0 | 0.0 | 136.51282051 | | 932.0 | 209.11654668 | 1.97463203 |
| GarageArea | :int16 | 39 | 0 | 0.0 | 214.56410256 | | 672.0 | 201.93443371 | 0.42348196 |
| KitchenQual | :string | 39 | 0 | | | Fa | | | |
| SalePrice | :int32 | 39 | 0 | 39300.0 | 105565.20512821 | | 200000.0 | 36004.25403680 | 0.24228279 |
TA [4 10]:
| :col-name | :datatype | :n-valid | :n-missing | :min | :mean | :mode | :max | :standard-deviation | :skew |
|-------------|-----------|----------|------------|---------|-----------------|-------|----------|---------------------|------------|
| BsmtFinSF1 | :int16 | 735 | 0 | 0.0 | 394.33741497 | | 1880.0 | 360.21459000 | 0.62751158 |
| GarageArea | :int16 | 735 | 0 | 0.0 | 394.24081633 | | 1356.0 | 187.55679385 | 0.17455203 |
| KitchenQual | :string | 735 | 0 | | | TA | | | |
| SalePrice | :int32 | 735 | 0 | 34900.0 | 139962.51156463 | | 375000.0 | 38896.28033636 | 0.99865115 |
Gd [4 10]:
| :col-name | :datatype | :n-valid | :n-missing | :min | :mean | :mode | :max | :standard-deviation | :skew |
|-------------|-----------|----------|------------|---------|-----------------|-------|----------|---------------------|------------|
| BsmtFinSF1 | :int16 | 586 | 0 | 0.0 | 456.46928328 | | 1810.0 | 455.20910936 | 0.59724411 |
| GarageArea | :int16 | 586 | 0 | 0.0 | 549.10068259 | | 1069.0 | 174.38742143 | 0.22683853 |
| KitchenQual | :string | 586 | 0 | | | Gd | | | |
| SalePrice | :int32 | 586 | 0 | 79000.0 | 212116.02389079 | | 625000.0 | 64020.17670212 | 1.18880409 |
)
This is best illustrated by an example:
user> (def stocks (ds/->dataset "https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/stocks.csv"))
#'user/stocks
user> (ds/select stocks :all (range 5))
test/data/stocks.csv [5 3]:
| symbol | date | price |
|--------+------------+--------|
| MSFT | 2000-01-01 | 39.810 |
| MSFT | 2000-02-01 | 36.350 |
| MSFT | 2000-03-01 | 43.220 |
| MSFT | 2000-04-01 | 28.370 |
| MSFT | 2000-05-01 | 25.450 |
user> (->> (ds/group-by-column "symbol" stocks)
(map (fn [[k v]] (ds/descriptive-stats v))))
(MSFT: descriptive-stats [3 10]:
| :col-name | :datatype | :n-valid | :n-missing | :mean | :mode | :min | :max | :standard-deviation | :skew |
|-----------+--------------------+----------+------------+------------+-------+------------+------------+---------------------+-------|
| date | :packed-local-date | 123 | 0 | 2005-01-30 | | 1999-12-31 | 2010-02-28 | NaN | NaN |
| price | :float32 | 123 | 0 | 24.737 | | 15.810 | 43.220 | 4.304 | 1.166 |
| symbol | :string | 123 | 0 | | MSFT | | | NaN | NaN |
GOOG: descriptive-stats [3 10]:
| :col-name | :datatype | :n-valid | :n-missing | :mean | :mode | :min | :max | :standard-deviation | :skew |
|-----------+--------------------+----------+------------+------------+-------+------------+------------+---------------------+--------|
| date | :packed-local-date | 68 | 0 | 2007-05-17 | | 2004-08-01 | 2010-02-28 | NaN | NaN |
| price | :float32 | 68 | 0 | 415.870 | | 102.370 | 707.000 | 135.070 | -0.228 |
| symbol | :string | 68 | 0 | | GOOG | | | NaN | NaN |
AAPL: descriptive-stats [3 10]:
| :col-name | :datatype | :n-valid | :n-missing | :mean | :mode | :min | :max | :standard-deviation | :skew |
|-----------+--------------------+----------+------------+------------+-------+------------+------------+---------------------+-------|
| date | :packed-local-date | 123 | 0 | 2005-01-30 | | 1999-12-31 | 2010-02-28 | NaN | NaN |
| price | :float32 | 123 | 0 | 64.730 | | 7.070 | 223.020 | 63.124 | 0.932 |
| symbol | :string | 123 | 0 | | AAPL | | | NaN | NaN |
IBM: descriptive-stats [3 10]:
| :col-name | :datatype | :n-valid | :n-missing | :mean | :mode | :min | :max | :standard-deviation | :skew |
|-----------+--------------------+----------+------------+------------+-------+------------+------------+---------------------+-------|
| date | :packed-local-date | 123 | 0 | 2005-01-30 | | 1999-12-31 | 2010-02-28 | NaN | NaN |
| price | :float32 | 123 | 0 | 91.261 | | 53.010 | 130.320 | 16.513 | 0.444 |
| symbol | :string | 123 | 0 | | IBM | | | NaN | NaN |
AMZN: descriptive-stats [3 10]:
| :col-name | :datatype | :n-valid | :n-missing | :mean | :mode | :min | :max | :standard-deviation | :skew |
|-----------+--------------------+----------+------------+------------+-------+------------+------------+---------------------+-------|
| date | :packed-local-date | 123 | 0 | 2005-01-30 | | 1999-12-31 | 2010-02-28 | NaN | NaN |
| price | :float32 | 123 | 0 | 47.987 | | 5.970 | 135.910 | 28.891 | 0.982 |
| symbol | :string | 123 | 0 | | AMZN | | | NaN | NaN |
)
Anything convertible to a reader such as persisent vectors or anything deriving from
both java.util.List
and java.util.RandomAccess
can be converted to a reader of
any datatype. Columns are exactly this so we can add a new column to the dataset
that is a linear combination of other columns using add-or-update-column:
user> (def updated-ames
(ds/add-or-update-column ames-ds
"TotalBath"
(dfn/+ (ames-ds "BsmtFullBath")
(dfn/* 0.5 (ames-ds "BsmtHalfBath"))
(ames-ds "FullBath")
(dfn/* 0.5 (ames-ds "HalfBath")))))
#'user/updated-ames
user> (ds/head 10 (ds/select-columns updated-ames ["BsmtFullBath" "BsmtHalfBath" "FullBath" "HalfBath" "TotalBath"]))
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz [10 5]:
| BsmtFullBath | BsmtHalfBath | FullBath | HalfBath | TotalBath |
|--------------|--------------|----------|----------|-----------|
| 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3.5 |
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.0 |
| 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.0 |
| 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.0 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.0 |
We can also implement a completely dynamic operation to create a new column by implementing the appropriate reader interface from the datatype library:
user> (def named-baths
(assoc
updated-ames
"NamedBath"
(let [total-baths (updated-ames "TotalBath")]
(dtype/object-reader
(count total-baths)
(fn [idx]
(let [tbaths (double (total-baths idx))]
(cond
(< tbaths 1.0)
"almost none"
(< tbaths 2.0)
"somewhat doable"
(< tbaths 3.0)
"getting somewhere"
:else
"living in style")))
:string))))
#'user/named-baths
user> (ds/head (ds/select-columns named-baths ["TotalBath" "NamedBath"]))
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz [5 2]:
| TotalBath | NamedBath |
|-----------|-------------------|
| 3.5 | living in style |
| 2.5 | getting somewhere |
| 3.5 | living in style |
| 2.0 | getting somewhere |
| 3.5 | living in style |
;; Here we see that the higher level houses all have more bathrooms
user> (ds/head (ds/select-columns sorted-named-baths ["TotalBath" "NamedBath" "SalePrice"]))
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz [5 3]:
| TotalBath | NamedBath | SalePrice |
|-----------|-----------------|-----------|
| 4.0 | living in style | 755000 |
| 4.5 | living in style | 745000 |
| 4.5 | living in style | 625000 |
| 3.5 | living in style | 611657 |
| 3.5 | living in style | 582933 |
user> (ds/tail (ds/select-columns sorted-named-baths ["TotalBath" "NamedBath" "SalePrice"]))
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz [5 3]:
| TotalBath | NamedBath | SalePrice |
|-----------|-----------------|-----------|
| 1.0 | somewhat doable | 40000 |
| 1.0 | somewhat doable | 39300 |
| 1.0 | somewhat doable | 37900 |
| 1.0 | somewhat doable | 35311 |
| 1.0 | somewhat doable | 34900 |
Support for reading datetime types and manipulating them. Please checkout the
tech.datatype
datetime documentation for using this feature.
(def stocks (ds/->dataset "test/data/stocks.csv" {:key-fn keyword}))
#'user/stocks
user> (ds/head stocks)
test/data/stocks.csv [5 3]:
| :symbol | :date | :price |
|---------|------------|--------|
| MSFT | 2000-01-01 | 39.81 |
| MSFT | 2000-02-01 | 36.35 |
| MSFT | 2000-03-01 | 43.22 |
| MSFT | 2000-04-01 | 28.37 |
| MSFT | 2000-05-01 | 25.45 |
user> (dtype/get-datatype (stocks :date))
:packed-local-date
user> (require '[tech.v2.datatype.datetime.operations :as dtype-dt-ops])
nil
user> (ds/head (ds/update-column stocks :date dtype-dt-ops/get-epoch-milliseconds))
test/data/stocks.csv [5 3]:
| :symbol | :date | :price |
|---------+----------------------+--------|
| MSFT | 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z | 39.81 |
| MSFT | 2000-02-01T00:00:00Z | 36.35 |
| MSFT | 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z | 43.22 |
| MSFT | 2000-04-01T00:00:00Z | 28.37 |
| MSFT | 2000-05-01T00:00:00Z | 25.45 |
;;How about the yearly averages by symbol of the stocks
user> (require '[tech.v2.datatype.functional :as dfn])
nil
user> (->> (ds/add-or-update-column stocks :years (dtype-dt-ops/get-years (stocks :date)))
(ds/group-by (juxt :symbol :years))
(vals)
;;stream is a sequence of datasets at this point.
(map (fn [ds]
{:symbol (first (ds :symbol))
:years (first (ds :years))
:avg-price (dfn/mean (ds :price))}))
(sort-by (juxt :symbol :years))
(ds/->>dataset)
(ds/head 10))
_unnamed [10 3]:
| :symbol | :years | :avg-price |
|---------|--------|--------------|
| AAPL | 2000 | 21.74833333 |
| AAPL | 2001 | 10.17583333 |
| AAPL | 2002 | 9.40833333 |
| AAPL | 2003 | 9.34750000 |
| AAPL | 2004 | 18.72333333 |
| AAPL | 2005 | 48.17166667 |
| AAPL | 2006 | 72.04333333 |
| AAPL | 2007 | 133.35333333 |
| AAPL | 2008 | 138.48083333 |
| AAPL | 2009 | 150.39333333 |
We now have experimental support for joins. This is a left-hash-join algorithm so the current algorithm is -
(tech.ml.dataset.functional/arggroup-by-int (lhs lhs-colname))
- this returns
a map of column-value->index-int32-array-list.(rhs rhs-colname)
finding values in the group-by hash map and
building out left and right hand side final indexes.Colname can be value in which case both datasets must contain that column or it
may be a tuple in which case it will be destructured like:
(let [[lhs-colname rhs-colname] colname] ...)
user> (def test-ds
(ds/->dataset "https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz"
{:column-whitelist ["SalePrice" "1stFlrSF" "2ndFlrSF"]
:n-records 5}))
#'user/test-ds
user> test-ds
https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/ames-train.csv.gz [4 3]:
| SalePrice | 1stFlrSF | 2ndFlrSF |
|-----------+----------+----------|
| 208500 | 856 | 854 |
| 181500 | 1262 | 0 |
| 223500 | 920 | 866 |
| 140000 | 961 | 756 |
user> (ds/inner-join "1stFlrSF"
(ds/set-dataset-name test-ds "left")
(ds/set-dataset-name test-ds "right"))
inner-join [4 5]:
| 1stFlrSF | SalePrice | 2ndFlrSF | right.SalePrice | right.2ndFlrSF |
|----------+-----------+----------+-----------------+----------------|
| 856 | 208500 | 854 | 208500 | 854 |
| 1262 | 181500 | 0 | 181500 | 0 |
| 920 | 223500 | 866 | 223500 | 866 |
| 961 | 140000 | 756 | 140000 | 756 |
user> (ds/right-join ["1stFlrSF" "2ndFlrSF"]
(ds/set-dataset-name test-ds "left")
(ds/set-dataset-name test-ds "right"))
right-outer-join [5 6]:
| 1stFlrSF | SalePrice | 2ndFlrSF | right.2ndFlrSF | right.SalePrice | right.1stFlrSF |
|----------|-----------|----------|----------------|-----------------|----------------|
| | | | 854 | 208500 | 856 |
| | | | 0 | 181500 | 1262 |
| | | | 866 | 223500 | 920 |
| | | | 756 | 140000 | 961 |
| | | | 1053 | 250000 | 1145 |
user> (ds/left-join ["1stFlrSF" "2ndFlrSF"]
(ds/set-dataset-name test-ds "left")
(ds/set-dataset-name test-ds "right"))
left-outer-join [5 6]:
| 1stFlrSF | SalePrice | 2ndFlrSF | right.2ndFlrSF | right.SalePrice | right.1stFlrSF |
|----------|-----------|----------|----------------|-----------------|----------------|
| 961 | 140000 | 756 | | | |
| 920 | 223500 | 866 | | | |
| 856 | 208500 | 854 | | | |
| 1145 | 250000 | 1053 | | | |
| 1262 | 181500 | 0 | | | |
We use apache poi directly to generate datasets from xls and xlsx files. This feature is, like joins, very new.
user> (ds/head (ds/->dataset "https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/file_example_XLS_1000.xls"))
Sheet1 [5 8]:
| 0 | First Name | Last Name | Gender | Country | Age | Date | Id |
|-------+------------+-----------+--------+---------------+-------+------------+------|
| 1.000 | Dulce | Abril | Female | United States | 32.00 | 15/10/2017 | 1562 |
| 2.000 | Mara | Hashimoto | Female | Great Britain | 25.00 | 16/08/2016 | 1582 |
| 3.000 | Philip | Gent | Male | France | 36.00 | 21/05/2015 | 2587 |
| 4.000 | Kathleen | Hanner | Female | United States | 25.00 | 15/10/2017 | 3549 |
| 5.000 | Nereida | Magwood | Female | United States | 58.00 | 16/08/2016 | 2468 |
In this example, we actually failed to parse the date because it is in an international format (day-month-year) and the dataset system automatically defaults to the American (month-day-year). In this case you actually have 2 options. You can reload the entire file and specify a datatype and DateTimeFormatter format for the column:
user> (ds/head (ds/->dataset "https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/file_example_XLS_1000.xls"
{:parser-fn {"Date" [:local-date "dd/MM/yyyy"]}}))
Sheet1 [5 8]:
| 0 | First Name | Last Name | Gender | Country | Age | Date | Id |
|-------|------------|-----------|--------|---------------|-------|------------|------|
| 1.000 | Dulce | Abril | Female | United States | 32.00 | 2017-10-15 | 1562 |
| 2.000 | Mara | Hashimoto | Female | Great Britain | 25.00 | 2016-08-16 | 1582 |
| 3.000 | Philip | Gent | Male | France | 36.00 | 2015-05-21 | 2587 |
| 4.000 | Kathleen | Hanner | Female | United States | 25.00 | 2017-10-15 | 3549 |
| 5.000 | Nereida | Magwood | Female | United States | 58.00 | 2016-08-16 | 2468 |
Or you can reparse just that column using the above parse syntax:
user> (require '[tech.ml.dataset.column :as ds-col])
nil
user> (def unparsed (ds/->dataset "https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset/raw/master/test/data/file_example_XLS_1000.xls"))
#'user/unparsed
user> (ds/head (ds/update-column unparsed "Date"
(partial ds-col/parse-column [:local-date "dd/MM/yyyy"])))
Sheet1 [5 8]:
| 0 | First Name | Last Name | Gender | Country | Age | Date | Id |
|-------+------------+-----------+--------+---------------+-------+------------+------|
| 1.000 | Dulce | Abril | Female | United States | 32.00 | 2017-10-15 | 1562 |
| 2.000 | Mara | Hashimoto | Female | Great Britain | 25.00 | 2016-08-16 | 1582 |
| 3.000 | Philip | Gent | Male | France | 36.00 | 2015-05-21 | 2587 |
| 4.000 | Kathleen | Hanner | Female | United States | 25.00 | 2017-10-15 | 3549 |
| 5.000 | Nereida | Magwood | Female | United States | 58.00 | 2016-08-16 | 2468 |
These forms are supported for writing out a dataset:
(ds/write-csv! test-ds "test.csv")
(ds/write-csv! test-ds "test.tsv")
(ds/write-csv! test-ds "test.tsv.gz")
(ds/write-csv! test-ds out-stream)
If you want to use your own serialization system, then converting the dataset to a sequence of maps presents a slow but effective way forward:
(tech.io/mapseq->csv! "file://test.csv" (dataset/mapseq-reader test-ds ))
(io/mapseq->csv! "file://test.tsv"
(dataset/mapseq-reader test-ds )
:separator \tab)
user> (with-open [outs (io/gzip-output-stream! "file://test.tsv.gz")]
(io/mapseq->csv!
(dataset/mapseq-reader test-ds )
:separator \tab))
We also have support for nippy in which case datasets work just like any other datastructure. This format allows some level of compression but about 10X-100X the loading performance of anything else.
user> (require '[taoensso.nippy :as nippy])
nil
user> (def stocks-data (nippy/freeze stocks))
#'user/stocks-data
user> (type stocks-data)
[B
user> (ds/head (nippy/thaw stocks-data))
test/data/stocks.csv [5 3]:
| :symbol | :date | :price |
|---------|------------|--------|
| MSFT | 2000-01-01 | 39.81 |
| MSFT | 2000-02-01 | 36.35 |
| MSFT | 2000-03-01 | 43.22 |
| MSFT | 2000-04-01 | 28.37 |
| MSFT | 2000-05-01 | 25.45 |
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