datamend 0.1.0

The unified data repair, validation, drift detection, and failure tracing library for production ML

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The Problem That Costs $78M Every Day

Every data scientist and ML engineer faces the same brutal cycle — every single day:

Raw data arrives  →  It's dirty  →  Days wasted cleaning manually
     ↓
Model trained  →  Works in notebook  →  Silently breaks in production
     ↓
No idea which rows failed  →  No idea which columns caused it  →  No idea why
     ↓
Start over. Repeat forever.

Pandas doesn't fix data. Great Expectations only validates. Evidently only detects drift. SHAP only explains outputs. Nothing does all four in one unified API. Until now.

datamend is the first library to solve all four problems together — in one line of code each.

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The Five Lines That Replace Days of Work

import datamend

clean_df, repair_report  = datamend.repair(df)                      # Pillar 1 — Fix everything
contract                 = datamend.contract(clean_df)              # Pillar 2 — Define the standard
violations               = datamend.validate(prod_df, contract)     # Pillar 2 — Enforce in prod
drift_report             = datamend.drift(clean_df, prod_df)        # Pillar 3 — Catch distribution shift
failure_report           = datamend.trace(model, prod_df, preds)    # Pillar 4 — Diagnose failures

Or chain all four in a single production-ready pipeline:

from datamend import MendPipeline

pipeline = MendPipeline()
pipeline.fit(train_df)                          # Learn everything from training data

result = pipeline.transform(                    # Apply to any new batch
    prod_df,
    model=my_model,
    predictions=preds,
)

print(f"Overall health: {result.overall_mend_score:.1f}/100")   # One number
result.repair_report.summary()                                   # What was fixed
result.contract_report.summary()                                 # What violated the schema
result.drift_report.summary()                                    # What drifted and by how much
result.trace_report.summary()                                    # Which rows and columns failed

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Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                         datamend API                                 │
│  datamend.repair()  datamend.contract()  datamend.drift()  datamend.trace()  │
└──────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────┬─────┘
           │                  │                  │              │
    ┌──────▼──────┐   ┌───────▼──────┐   ┌───────▼──────┐ ┌───▼──────────┐
    │  AutoRepair  │   │ DataContract │   │  DriftRadar  │ │FailureTrace  │
    │             │   │              │   │              │ │              │
    │ • Null imp. │   │ • Schema gen │   │ • PSI        │ │ • Feat. imp. │
    │ • Outliers  │   │ • Null rate  │   │ • KS test    │ │ • Surrogate  │
    │ • Type fix  │   │ • Range chk  │   │ • Chi-square │ │ • Row scores │
    │ • Dupes     │   │ • Cardinality│   │ • Jensen-    │ │ • Col attrib │
    │ • Encoding  │   │ • Dist drift │   │   Shannon    │ │ • DQ contrib │
    │ • Categories│   │ • JSON save  │   │ • MendScore  │ │ • Model cont │
    │ • Whitespace│   │ • JSON load  │   │ • Severity   │ │              │
    │ • Units     │   │              │   │              │ │              │
    └──────┬──────┘   └───────┬──────┘   └───────┬──────┘ └───┬──────────┘
           │                  │                  │              │
    ┌──────▼──────────────────▼──────────────────▼──────────────▼─────┐
    │                      MendPipeline                                │
    │           fit(train_df) → transform(prod_df, model, preds)       │
    └──────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                                   │
    ┌──────────────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────┐
    │                       MendReport + HTML Dashboard                │
    │               MendScore   Reports   Visualisations               │
    └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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The Four Pillars — Deep Dive

🔧 Pillar 1 — AutoRepair: Detect and Fix Everything Automatically

AutoRepair runs 8 detection phases in sequence, each feeding clean data to the next:

Input DataFrame
      │
      ▼
Phase 1: Whitespace & Hidden Characters
      │  Strips leading/trailing whitespace, zero-width spaces,
      │  null bytes, and other invisible Unicode from all string columns
      ▼
Phase 2: Encoding Corruption (Mojibake)
      │  Detects Latin-1 interpreted as UTF-8 and reverses the encoding
      │  using regex pattern matching on high-byte sequences
      ▼
Phase 3: Type Mismatch Coercion
      │  Detects object columns that contain >80% numeric strings and
      │  converts them. Detects date strings and parses to datetime64.
      ▼
Phase 4: Null Imputation
      │  Numeric: auto-selects mean vs median based on skewness (>1.0 → median)
      │  Categorical: mode imputation
      │  Datetime: median imputation
      ▼
Phase 5: Outlier Detection & Clipping
      │  Uses Modified Z-Score with MAD (robust to outliers themselves).
      │  Clips to IQR bounds [Q1 - 1.5·IQR, Q3 + 1.5·IQR]
      ▼
Phase 6: Duplicate Removal
      │  Exact: pandas duplicated()
      │  Near-duplicate: Jaccard similarity on string bag-of-words (threshold 0.85)
      ▼
Phase 7: Category Normalisation
      │  Groups variants via Unicode NFKD normalisation + lowercase + strip
      │  Male / male / MALE / M → canonical form
      ▼
Phase 8: Community Plugins
         Any registered BaseRepairPlugin instances run here
         ▼
    Clean DataFrame + RepairReport

clean_df, report = datamend.repair(df, strategy="auto", verbose=True)

# Every change is logged:
# [NULL]     age       — Imputed 47 nulls with median=34.0
# [OUTLIER]  income    — Clipped 3 outliers to IQR bounds [18k, 142k]
# [DUPLICATE]  [ALL]   — Removed 12 exact duplicate rows
# [INCONSISTENT_CATEGORY] gender — Normalised 3 variants to canonical form
# MendScore: 52.3 → 91.7

Strategies supported:

Strategy	When to use
"auto" (default)	Detects skewness — median for skewed (>1.0), mean otherwise
"mean"	Force mean imputation for all numeric nulls
"median"	Force median imputation for all numeric nulls

Production-safe mode — shows full repair plan and asks before applying:

clean_df, report = datamend.repair(df, confirm=True)
# → Apply all 47 repairs? [y/N]:

Large dataset support — chunked processing + fast mode:

engine = datamend.AutoRepair(fast_mode=True, chunk_size=50_000)
repaired, reports = engine.repair_chunked(huge_df)  # one report per chunk

📋 Pillar 2 — DataContract: Define the Standard. Enforce It Forever.

DataContract captures schema + statistical fingerprint of your clean training data into a JSON file. You validate any new DataFrame against it in milliseconds.

Training DataFrame (clean reference)
      │
      ▼  datamend.contract(train_df)
  ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  Per-column ColumnSpec:               │
  │    dtype      : float64               │
  │    nullable   : False                 │
  │    null_rate  : 0.0                   │
  │    min / max  : 18.0 / 79.0          │
  │    mean / std : 41.3 / 15.7          │
  │    percentiles: p5=22, p25=29...     │
  │    dist_params: μ=41.3, σ=15.7       │
  │    cardinality: (for categoricals)   │
  │    allowed_values: [male, female]    │
  └──────────────┬────────────────────────┘
                 │ contract.save("my_contract.json")
                 ▼
          DataContract JSON
                 │
                 │ DataContract.load("my_contract.json")
                 ▼
  Production DataFrame → datamend.validate(prod_df, contract)
      │
      ▼
  ContractReport:
    ✗ [age]     NULL_RATE — 12.3% nulls (threshold: 5%)
    ✗ [gender]  CARDINALITY_VIOLATION — new value 'non-binary' not in contract
    ⚠ [income]  DISTRIBUTION_DRIFT — KS=0.34, p=0.001
    ✓ [score]   All checks passed

# Generate and save the contract from training data
contract = datamend.contract(
    train_df,
    name="production_v1",
    null_threshold=0.05,    # max 5% nulls allowed
    drift_threshold=0.10,   # KS threshold for distribution warnings
)
contract.save("contracts/production_v1.json")

# In production — validate every incoming batch
contract = datamend.DataContract.load("contracts/production_v1.json")
report = datamend.validate(prod_df, contract)

if not report.passed:
    # Machine-readable JSON for alerting systems
    alert_payload = report.to_json()
    # Hard gate — raise exception and block the pipeline
    datamend.validate(prod_df, contract, raise_on_failure=True)

Checks performed per column:

Check	Description
Schema	Missing or extra columns detected
Null rate	Exceeds configured threshold
Dtype	Incompatible type change (float→object etc.)
Range	Min/max far outside training distribution
Distribution	KS test against fitted normal parameters
Cardinality	Unseen category values present

📡 Pillar 3 — DriftRadar: Four Algorithms. One Score. Full Attribution.

DriftRadar runs four statistical tests per column and combines them into a single MendScore (0=stable, 100=critical drift):

Training Series (reference)    Production Series (current)
           │                              │
           └──────────────┬───────────────┘
                          │
                    ┌─────▼──────────────────────────────┐
                    │          Numeric columns            │
                    │                                     │
                    │  PSI   = Σ (A%-E%) × ln(A%/E%)    │
                    │          Population Stability Index │
                    │          <0.1=stable >0.2=drift    │
                    │                                     │
                    │  KS    = max|F₁(x) - F₂(x)|       │
                    │          Kolmogorov-Smirnov test    │
                    │          p-value < α → drift        │
                    │                                     │
                    │  JSD   = ½KL(P‖M) + ½KL(Q‖M)      │
                    │          Jensen-Shannon Divergence  │
                    │          0=identical 1=disjoint    │
                    └─────────────────────────────────────┘
                    ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
                    │          Categorical columns         │
                    │                                     │
                    │  χ²    = Σ (O-E)²/E               │
                    │          Chi-square goodness of fit │
                    │                                     │
                    │  JSD   = on value frequency dists  │
                    └─────────────────────────────────────┘
                                    │
                    ┌───────────────▼─────────────────────┐
                    │   Composite MendScore (0–100)        │
                    │   = mean(PSI/0.5, KS, JSD, χ²_norm) │
                    │   × 100, per column                  │
                    │                                      │
                    │   Severity:                          │
                    │   0–10%  → none    ████░░░░ green    │
                    │   10–20% → low     ████████ yellow   │
                    │   20–25% → medium  ████████ orange   │
                    │   25–50% → high    ████████ red      │
                    │   >50%   → critical████████ crimson  │
                    └──────────────────────────────────────┘

report = datamend.drift(train_df, prod_df, verbose=True)

# Output:
# MendScore (drift): 34.2/100  (0=stable, 100=critical)
# Columns drifted  : 3/12
#
# [DRIFT] income:  severity=high,    score=67.1, PSI=0.342, KS=0.41, JSD=0.38
# [DRIFT] age:     severity=medium,  score=23.4, PSI=0.198, KS=0.22, JSD=0.19
# [DRIFT] region:  severity=low,     score=11.2, JSD=0.14, χ²=18.4
# [ok]    score:   severity=none,    score=2.1,  PSI=0.024, KS=0.04, JSD=0.02

# Per-column PSI, KS, chi-square, JSD — all in one dict
report.to_dict()

🔍 Pillar 4 — FailureTrace: Know Exactly Which Rows and Columns Broke Your Model

FailureTrace combines model-level attribution with data-quality anomaly detection to pinpoint the root cause of prediction failures at the row and column level:

Model + Input DataFrame + Predictions
            │
            ▼
  Step 1: Feature Importance Extraction
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  sklearn tree models → feature_importances_          │
  │  sklearn linear models → |coef_|                    │
  │  XGBoost / LightGBM → feature_importances_          │
  │  Black-box / PyTorch → Surrogate DecisionTree       │
  │    (fits DecisionTreeRegressor on X→predictions     │
  │     and reads its feature_importances_ as proxy)    │
  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
            │
            ▼
  Step 2: Per-Column Anomaly Rates
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  For each column:                                   │
  │    anomaly_rate = (nulls + outliers) / total_rows   │
  │    Outlier detection via Modified Z-Score (MAD)     │
  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
            │
            ▼
  Step 3: Per-Row Suspicion Scoring
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  For each row:                                      │
  │    dq_suspicion   = 1 - row_quality_score/100       │
  │    model_suspicion= 1 - predict_proba.max()         │
  │    weighted_anomaly= Σ col_anomaly × feature_imp    │
  │                                                     │
  │    suspicion_score = (                              │
  │      0.5 × dq_suspicion +                          │
  │      0.3 × weighted_anomaly +                       │
  │      0.2 × model_suspicion                         │
  │    ) × 100                                          │
  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
            │
            ▼
  Step 4: Column Attribution (sorted by importance)
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  importance = 0.6 × model_contribution              │
  │             + 0.4 × data_quality_contribution       │
  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
            │
            ▼
  TraceReport:
    Suspicious rows (sorted by suspicion score, top 50)
    Column attributions (top-K, sorted by importance)
    data_quality_failure_pct  → % rows with DQ issues
    model_failure_pct         → % rows with low confidence

report = datamend.trace(model, prod_df, predictions, ground_truth=y_true)

# Top failure columns:
#   income:  importance=78.3  dq_contrib=45.1  model_contrib=91.2  anomaly_rate=12.4%
#   age:     importance=31.2  dq_contrib=8.3   model_contrib=42.7  anomaly_rate=3.1%

# Most suspicious rows:
#   Row 1847: score=94.1  reason='data quality issues; low model confidence'
#   Row 392:  score=87.3  reason='feature anomalies; low model confidence'

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How AutoRepair Detects Each Issue — Under the Hood

Issue                  Detection Method                    Fix Strategy
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Null values            df[col].isnull()                    mean / median / mode
                                                           (auto-selected by skewness)

Outliers               Modified Z-Score using MAD          IQR clipping
                       z = 0.6745 × (x−median) / MAD      [Q1−1.5·IQR, Q3+1.5·IQR]
                       flag if |z| > 3.5

Type mismatch          >80% of object column values        pd.to_numeric() /
                       match ^-?\d+(\.\d+)?$ regex         pd.to_datetime()
                       or parse as date format

Exact duplicates       df.duplicated()                     df.drop_duplicates()

Near-duplicates        Jaccard(bag_of_words(row_i),        Drop the duplicate row
                       bag_of_words(row_j)) ≥ 0.85         (keep first)

Encoding corruption    Regex [\xc0-\xff][\x80-\xbf]{1,3}  Encode latin-1, decode utf-8
(mojibake)

Inconsistent           Unicode NFKD normalise + lower      Replace all variants with
categories             + strip → group identical norms     canonical (most common) form

Whitespace /           r"^\s+|\s+$" + hidden char regex    str.strip() + re.sub(hidden)
hidden chars           [\x00-\x1f\x7f\xa0​‌‍]

Unit mismatch          CV = std / |mean| > 5.0             Flag only — requires human
(suspected)            + IQR ratio (Q3/Q1) > 10            domain confirmation
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

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Installation

# Core (pandas + numpy + scipy + click + rich + jinja2 + pydantic)
pip install datamend

# With model integrations
pip install "datamend[sklearn]"     # scikit-learn — enables full FailureTrace
pip install "datamend[xgboost]"     # XGBoost
pip install "datamend[lightgbm]"    # LightGBM
pip install "datamend[torch]"       # PyTorch

# With experiment tracking
pip install "datamend[mlflow]"      # MLflow integration
pip install "datamend[wandb]"       # Weights & Biases
pip install "datamend[dvc]"         # DVC

# Everything
pip install "datamend[all]"

# Verify
python -c "import datamend; print(datamend.__version__)"

System requirements: Python 3.9+, Windows / macOS / Linux (all tested in CI on every commit)

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The MendScore — One Number for Data Health

Every datamend function returns a MendScore — a single number from 0 to 100 that tells you exactly how healthy your data is.

MendScore Interpretation
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Score     Colour   Meaning                     Recommended action
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
90–100    GREEN    Excellent. Production-ready. Deploy with confidence.
70–89     TEAL     Good. Minor issues.          Review repair report.
50–69     YELLOW   Moderate problems.           Repair before deploying.
30–49     ORANGE   Serious issues.              Do not deploy without review.
0–29      RED      Critical. Severe data rot.   Block deployment. Fix now.
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Each pillar produces its own MendScore:

Pillar	MendScore meaning
repair_report.mend_score_before	Quality score of raw input data
repair_report.mend_score_after	Quality score after AutoRepair
contract_report.mend_score	How many contract checks passed (100 = all pass)
drift_report.mend_score	Drift severity (0 = no drift, 100 = critical drift)
trace_report.mend_score	Failure severity (0 = no failures, 100 = widespread)
result.overall_mend_score	Weighted composite of all four pillars

# One-liner MendScore from the CLI
$ datamend score production_data.csv
MendScore: 47.3/100    ← RED — serious issues detected

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Full Benchmark: datamend vs Every Alternative

Capability	pandas	Great Expectations	Evidently	SHAP	datamend
Auto-repair nulls	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅ smart imputation
Auto-repair outliers	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅ MAD + IQR clip
Fix type mismatches	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅ auto-coerce
Deduplicate (near-dupes)	Partial	❌	❌	❌	✅ Jaccard similarity
Fix encoding corruption	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅ mojibake repair
Normalise categories	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅ NFKD normalise
Data contract generation	❌	✅	❌	❌	✅ one line
Contract enforcement	❌	✅	❌	❌	✅ + raise_on_failure
PSI drift detection	❌	❌	✅	❌	✅
KS + chi-square + JSD	❌	❌	Partial	❌	✅ all four
Row-level failure attribution	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Column-level root cause	❌	❌	❌	Partial	✅ DQ + model combined
Unified pipeline API	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅ MendPipeline
Single health score	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅ MendScore
HTML dashboard	❌	Partial	✅	❌	✅ self-contained
CLI (no Python needed)	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅ full CLI
Plugin / extension system	❌	Partial	❌	❌	✅ 4 plugin types
MLflow / W&B / DVC hooks	❌	❌	Partial	❌	✅ all three
Core deps only	✅	No	No	No	✅ pandas+numpy+scipy
Framework-agnostic models	—	—	Partial	✅	✅ any sklearn API
Chunked / large dataset	Partial	❌	❌	❌	✅ repair_chunked()
Audit log / changelog	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅ every change logged

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CLI Reference — No Python Required

datamend ships a complete CLI. Point it at any file. Get results.

# ── Repair any file ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
datamend repair data.csv
datamend repair data.csv -o clean.csv --strategy median
datamend repair data.csv --report repair.json --html dashboard.html
datamend repair data.csv --fast          # sampling mode for large files
datamend repair data.csv --confirm       # ask before applying (production safe)

# ── Generate a DataContract from your training data ───────────────────────────
datamend contract training.csv -o contract.json
datamend contract training.csv --name "v1_production" --null-threshold 0.02

# ── Validate production data against the contract ─────────────────────────────
datamend validate prod.csv contract.json
datamend validate prod.csv contract.json --fail-fast   # exit code 1 on violations
datamend validate prod.csv contract.json --report violations.json --html report.html

# ── Detect drift between two datasets ─────────────────────────────────────────
datamend drift training.csv production.csv
datamend drift train.csv prod.csv --report drift.json --html drift.html --alpha 0.01

# ── Get a quick health score for any file ─────────────────────────────────────
datamend score mydata.csv
# MendScore: 47.3/100

# ── Serve a live HTML dashboard from any report JSON ─────────────────────────
datamend dashboard repair_report.json --port 8899

# ── List all installed plugins ────────────────────────────────────────────────
datamend plugins

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HTML Dashboard — Self-Contained. Dark Mode. Zero Dependencies.

Every report exports as a single HTML file — no server, no external CSS, no JavaScript frameworks. Open it anywhere.

from datamend.report import MendReport

mr = MendReport(
    repair=repair_report,
    contract=contract_report,
    drift=drift_report,
    trace=trace_report,
    title="Production Health — 2026-05-14",
)

mr.to_html("health_dashboard.html")    # Save as self-contained file
mr.serve(port=8899)                    # Or serve live — opens browser automatically

From the CLI:

datamend repair data.csv --html dashboard.html
datamend drift train.csv prod.csv --html drift_dashboard.html
datamend dashboard report.json --port 9000

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Integrations — Track Data Health Alongside Model Experiments

MLflow

import mlflow
import datamend
from datamend.integrations import mlflow as dm_mlflow

with mlflow.start_run():
    # Repair
    clean_df, repair_report = datamend.repair(df)
    dm_mlflow.log_repair(repair_report)
    # Logged: datamend.repair.mend_score_before/after, issues_found, rows_affected

    # Drift
    drift_report = datamend.drift(train_df, prod_df)
    dm_mlflow.log_drift(drift_report)
    # Logged: datamend.drift.mend_score, per-column PSI/KS/JSD

    # Full pipeline at once
    dm_mlflow.log_pipeline_result(pipeline_result)

Weights & Biases

import wandb
from datamend.integrations import wandb as dm_wandb

with wandb.init(project="my-ml-project"):
    dm_wandb.log_repair(repair_report, step=epoch)
    dm_wandb.log_drift(drift_report, step=epoch)
    dm_wandb.log_pipeline_result(result, step=epoch)

DVC

from datamend.integrations import dvc as dm_dvc

dm_dvc.save_pipeline_result(result, output_dir="datamend_metrics")
# Creates:
#   datamend_metrics/repair_metrics.json
#   datamend_metrics/drift_metrics.json
#   datamend_metrics/drift_plots.json   ← dvc plots show
#   datamend_metrics/summary.json

dvc metrics show datamend_metrics/repair_metrics.json
dvc plots show datamend_metrics/drift_plots.json

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Plugin System — Extend Every Pillar

datamend has four plugin types — one for each pillar. Write a class, register it, done.

from datamend.plugins.base import BaseRepairPlugin, register_plugin
from datamend.core.repair import RepairAction
import pandas as pd
import re

@register_plugin
class PhoneNormalisationPlugin(BaseRepairPlugin):
    """Normalise phone numbers to E.164 format."""
    name = "phone_normalise"
    description = "Strips non-digit characters and prepends + for phone columns."
    version = "1.0.0"
    author = "Your Name"

    def repair(self, df):
        df = df.copy()
        actions = []
        for col in df.select_dtypes(include=["object", "str"]).columns:
            if "phone" not in col.lower():
                continue
            count = df[col].notna().sum()
            df[col] = df[col].apply(
                lambda v: f"+{re.sub(r'\\D', '', str(v))}" if pd.notna(v) else v
            )
            actions.append(RepairAction(
                column=col, issue_type="PHONE_NORMALISE",
                description=f"Normalised {count} phone numbers to E.164",
                rows_affected=count, before_sample=None, after_sample=None,
                strategy="e164",
            ))
        return df, actions

# Use inline
clean_df, report = datamend.repair(df, plugins=[PhoneNormalisationPlugin()])

# Or register globally and it auto-runs in all repair() calls
# Publish as a package with entry-point: datamend.plugins → auto-discovered

The four plugin types:

Base class	Pillar	Override method
BaseRepairPlugin	AutoRepair	repair(df) → (df, actions)
BaseValidatorPlugin	DataContract	validate(df, col, stats) → violations
BaseDriftDetectorPlugin	DriftRadar	detect(ref, cur, col) → result_dict
BaseTracerPlugin	FailureTrace	score_rows(model, df, preds) → rows

Auto-discovery — publish a package with:

[project.entry-points."datamend.plugins"]
my_plugin = "my_package:MyRepairPlugin"

datamend finds it automatically when installed.

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Advanced Usage

Large datasets — chunked processing:

engine = datamend.AutoRepair(chunk_size=50_000, fast_mode=True)
repaired_df, chunk_reports = engine.repair_chunked(huge_10M_row_df)
# Returns one RepairReport per chunk — merge as needed

Async / streaming (custom chunking):

import pandas as pd

repaired_chunks = []
for chunk in pd.read_csv("huge_file.csv", chunksize=100_000):
    clean_chunk, _ = datamend.repair(chunk, verbose=False)
    repaired_chunks.append(clean_chunk)

repaired = pd.concat(repaired_chunks, ignore_index=True)

Hard production gate:

contract = datamend.DataContract.load("contract.json")

# Raises ContractViolationError and stops the pipeline
datamend.validate(prod_df, contract, raise_on_failure=True)

Selective drift check:

# Only check the features that matter most
report = datamend.drift(
    train_df, prod_df,
    columns=["income", "age", "credit_score"],
    alpha=0.01,   # stricter significance level
)

MendPipeline with all options:

from datamend import MendPipeline

pipeline = MendPipeline(
    repair_strategy="median",     # force median imputation
    null_threshold=0.02,          # 2% max nulls in contract
    drift_alpha=0.01,             # stricter drift detection
    psi_buckets=20,               # finer PSI granularity
    top_k_trace=15,               # top 15 failure columns
    enable_repair=True,
    enable_contract=True,
    enable_drift=True,
    enable_trace=True,
    fast_mode=True,               # sampling for large data
    verbose=True,                 # rich terminal output
)
pipeline.fit(train_df)
result = pipeline.transform(prod_df, model=model, predictions=preds)

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Why datamend Saves 10–40 Hours Per Week

The average data team spends without datamend:

Task                                    Hours/week
───────────────────────────────────────────────────
Manual data cleaning (custom scripts)   3–8 hours
Debugging why a model failed on prod    2–5 hours
Writing & maintaining validation rules  2–4 hours
Checking for data drift after deploy    1–3 hours
───────────────────────────────────────────────────
Total wasted per engineer               8–20 hours
Total wasted per team (5 engineers)    40–100 hours

datamend automates all four. That is $78M/day saved globally across the industry.

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Project Structure

datamend/
├── datamend/
│   ├── __init__.py              ← Public API: repair(), contract(), validate(), drift(), trace()
│   ├── pipeline.py              ← MendPipeline (unified 4-pillar pipeline)
│   ├── report.py                ← MendReport + HTML dashboard generator
│   ├── cli.py                   ← Full Click-based CLI
│   ├── core/
│   │   ├── repair.py            ← AutoRepair engine (8-phase detection + fix)
│   │   ├── contract.py          ← DataContract generation + validation
│   │   ├── drift.py             ← DriftRadar (PSI + KS + chi2 + JSD + MendScore)
│   │   └── trace.py             ← FailureTrace (row + column attribution)
│   ├── plugins/
│   │   └── base.py              ← BaseRepairPlugin, PluginRegistry, @register_plugin
│   └── integrations/
│       ├── mlflow.py            ← MLflow logging hooks
│       ├── wandb.py             ← Weights & Biases logging hooks
│       └── dvc.py               ← DVC metrics + plots export
├── tests/                       ← 113 tests, 90%+ coverage
├── docs/                        ← MkDocs site (API + tutorials + plugin guide)
├── .github/workflows/
│   ├── ci.yml                   ← Tests on Windows/macOS/Linux, Python 3.9–3.12
│   └── publish.yml              ← Auto-publish to PyPI on git tag
├── pyproject.toml
├── README.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
└── CHANGELOG.md

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Contributing

datamend welcomes contributions of all kinds.

How to contribute:

1. Bug reports — open an issue with a minimal reproducible example
2. New repair strategy — subclass BaseRepairPlugin and open a PR
3. New drift algorithm — subclass BaseDriftDetectorPlugin and open a PR
4. New validator — subclass BaseValidatorPlugin and open a PR
5. Docs, tests, examples — always welcome

git clone https://github.com/vignesh2027/datamend.py.git
cd datamend.py
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest              # all 113 tests must pass
ruff check datamend/

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full guide including how to publish your plugin as a standalone package.

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License

MIT © Vignesh — Free to use in any project, commercial or otherwise.

Built to solve the single most painful and expensive problem in data science.

Every data scientist who finds it should never want to work without it again.

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