PyStack’t Data Exploration

📊 Create Statistics Views

📝 Example

from pystackt import *

create_statistics_views(
    quack_db="./stackt.duckdb",
    schema_in="main",
    schema_out="statistics"
)

Parameter	Type	Description
quack_db	str	Path to the DuckDB database file containing the input data.
schema_in	str	Name of the schema in the DuckDB file that contains the input data. Needs to be stored using in Stack’t relational schema.
schema_out	str	Name of the schema where the output SQL views will be created. If schema already exists, it will be cleared first.

Input data (quack_db, schema_in)

The input data must be stored in a DuckDB database file using the Stack’t relational schema. quack_db defines the path to this file, and schema_in specifies the schema containing the OCED data.

Output views (schema_out)

Two SQL views are created in the schema defined by schema_out. They contain some simple statistics that provide an excellent starting point to get to know the data.

• event_stats: provides summary statistics for each event type, including:
  • first_event_timestamp / last_event_timestamp: timestamp of the earliest/latest event recorded for this type
  • event_count: total number of events of this type
  • event_attribute_count: number of distinct attributes defined for this event type
  • event_attribute_value_update_count: number of times a value is recorded for these attributes across all events
• object_stats: provides summary statistics for each object type, including:
  • first_object_update_timestamp / last_object_update_timestamp: timestamps of the earliest/latest attribute value update recorded for objects of this type
  • object_count: number of distinct objects of this type
  • object_attribute_count: number of distinct attributes defined for this object type
  • object_attribute_value_update_count: number of attribute value updates recorded for objects of this type

If schema_out already exists, it will be cleared before the new views are created.

🔍 Viewing Data

The article How to view DuckDB files explains how you can view the result.