Validate.get_row_flags()

Get the target table with columns flagging the validation steps each row failed.

Usage

Validate.get_row_flags(
    duplicates="keep_first",
    duplicates_order_by=None,
)

Where get_sundered_data() splits the table into the rows that passed every step and those that failed any of them, get_row_flags() keeps every row and says which steps each one failed. The returned table is the target table with these columns added:

pb_failed_<i>_, one for each row-level step (where <i> is the step number): True if the row failed step <i>
pb_n_failed_: the number of steps the row failed
pb_row_score_: the share of the row’s checks that passed (from 0 to 1), weighted by the dimension weights set with config(dimension_weights=...) just as in get_health_score()

This is useful when removing every row that failed a check is too blunt. You can use the flags to see which problems occur together, filter on just the checks you care about, stratify a sample on them, or use pb_row_score_ to weight rows (e.g., as sample weights when training a model) instead of dropping them.

Details

The steps that get flag columns are the same ones used by get_sundered_data(): steps that check rows or cells down a column, that are active, and that don’t use pre=. A row that a step didn’t check (e.g., a row outside the segment of a step that uses segments=) isn’t flagged by it, and isn’t counted in its pb_row_score_. A row that no step checked has a missing pb_row_score_.

Unlike get_sundered_data(), steps that use rows_distinct() are included by default: one copy of each group of duplicate rows (the first one) isn’t flagged, and the other copies are. So a rows_distinct() flag marks the rows that removing duplicates would remove. Use duplicates= and duplicates_order_by= to choose which copy is kept.

A row-level step that can’t be used is reported in a warning: that’s a step that uses pre= (it can change the rows, so its results may not line up with the table’s rows), a step that couldn’t be evaluated, or a rows_distinct() step when duplicates=None.

Parameters

duplicates: str | None = "keep_first": How to flag the duplicate rows found by rows_distinct() steps. With "keep_first" (the default) or "keep_last", one copy of each group of duplicates (the first or last one, in row order or in the order given by duplicates_order_by=) isn’t flagged. "flag_all" flags every copy, as the step itself counts them, and None leaves rows_distinct() steps out.
duplicates_order_by: str | list[str] | None = None: One or more columns that order the copies of a duplicated row, to decide which copy isn’t flagged. For example, use duplicates="keep_last", duplicates_order_by="updated_at" to keep the newest record. Ties are broken by row order, and a copy with a missing value in one of these columns is kept only if every copy is missing that value. Without this, the copies are taken in row order (for a database table, which has no row order of its own, rows are ordered by their values, so the choice is arbitrary but the same from run to run).

Returns

Any: The target table, of the same type, with the flag and summary columns added.

Examples

Let’s validate a table of orders with a check on the amounts, a check for missing values, and a check for duplicated order IDs.

import pointblank as pb
import polars as pl

orders = pl.DataFrame(
    {
        "order_id": [1, 2, 2, 3, 4],
        "amount": [25.0, -5.0, -5.0, None, 40.0],
        "status": ["paid", "paid", "paid", "open", None],
    }
)

validation = (
    pb.Validate(data=orders)
    .col_vals_gt(columns="amount", value=0)
    .rows_complete()
    .rows_distinct(columns_subset="order_id")
    .interrogate()
)

pb.preview(validation.get_row_flags())

	order_id Int64	amount Float64	status String	pb_failed_1_ Boolean	pb_failed_2_ Boolean	pb_failed_3_ Boolean	pb_n_failed_ Int64	pb_row_score_ Float64
1	1	25.0	paid	False	False	False	0	1.0
2	2	-5.0	paid	True	False	False	1	0.6666666666666666
3	2	-5.0	paid	True	False	True	2	0.3333333333333333
4	3	None	open	True	True	False	2	0.3333333333333333
5	4	40.0	None	False	True	False	1	0.6666666666666666

Each step has a flag column. Both copies of order 2 have a negative amount, so both fail step 1, but only the second copy is flagged by step 3, since removing duplicates would keep the first one. Order 3 fails step 1 because its amount is missing (missing values fail col_vals_gt() unless na_pass=True) and it also fails step 2. Order 1 passed every check, so it has a pb_row_score_ of 1.

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