data-patterns 0.1.6

Package for generating and evaluating patterns in quantitative reports

data-patterns

Package for generating and evaluating data-patterns in quantitative reports

• Free software: MIT/X license

• Documentation: https://data-patterns.readthedocs.io.

Features

Here is what the package does:

• Generating and evaluating patterns in structured datasets and exporting them to Excel and JSON

• Evaluating reporting data with data quality rules published by De Nederlandsche Bank (to be provided)

Quick overview

To install the package

pip install data_patterns

To introduce the features of the this package define the following Pandas DataFrame:

df = pd.DataFrame(columns = ['Name',       'Type',             'Assets', 'TV-life', 'TV-nonlife' , 'Own funds', 'Excess'],
                  data   = [['Insurer  1', 'life insurer',     1000,     800,       0,             200,         200],
                            ['Insurer  2', 'non-life insurer', 4000,     0,         3200,          800,         800],
                            ['Insurer  3', 'non-life insurer', 800,      0,         700,           100,         100],
                            ['Insurer  4', 'life insurer',     2500,     1800,      0,             700,         700],
                            ['Insurer  5', 'non-life insurer', 2100,     0,         2200,          200,         200],
                            ['Insurer  6', 'life insurer',     9000,     8800,      0,             200,         200],
                            ['Insurer  7', 'life insurer',     9000,     0,         8800,          200,         200],
                            ['Insurer  8', 'life insurer',     9000,     8800,      0,             200,         200],
                            ['Insurer  9', 'non-life insurer', 9000,     0,         8800,          200,         200],
                            ['Insurer 10', 'non-life insurer', 9000,     0,         8800,          200,         199.99]])
df.set_index('Name', inplace = True)

Start by defining a PatternMiner:

miner = data_patterns.PatternMiner(df)

To generate patterns use the find-function of this object:

df_patterns = miner.find({'name'      : 'equal values',
                          'pattern'   : '=',
                          'parameters': {"min_confidence": 0.5,
                                         "min_support"   : 2}})

The result is a DataFrame with the patterns that were found. The first part of the DataFrame now contains

id	pattern_id	P columns	relation type	Q columns	support	exceptions	confidence
0	equal values	[Own funds]	=	[Excess]	9	1	0.9
1	equal values	[Excess]	=	[Own funds]	9	1	0.9

The miner finds two patterns; the first states that the ‘Own funds’-column is identical to the ‘Excess’-column in 9 of the 10 cases (with a confidence of 90 %, there is one case where the equal-pattern does not hold), and the second pattern is identical to the first but with the columns reversed.

To analyze data with the generated set of data-patterns use the analyze function with the dataframe with the data as input:

df_results = miner.analyze(df)

The result is a DataFrame with the results. If we select result_type = False then the first part of the output contains

index	result_type	pattern_id	P columns	relation type	Q columns	P values	Q values
Insurer 10	False	equal values	[Own funds]	=	[Excess]	[200]	[199.99]
Insurer 10	False	equal values	[Excess]	=	[Own funds]	[199.99]	[200]

Other patterns you can use are ‘>’, ‘<’, ‘<=’, ‘>=’, ‘!=’, ‘sum’, and ‘–>’.

Read the documentation for more features.

History

0.1.0 (2019-10-27)

• Development release.

0.1.11 (2019-11-6)

• First release on PyPI.