py-AutoClean 1.1.1

AutoClean - Python Package for Automated Preprocessing & Cleaning of Datasets

AutoClean - Automated Data Preprocessing & Cleaning

AutoClean automates data preprocessing & cleaning for your next Data Science project in Python.

Read more on the AutoClean algorithm in my Medium article Automated Data Cleaning with Python.

View the AutoClean project on GitHub.

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Description

It is commonly known among Data Scientists that data cleaning and preprocessing make up a major part of a data science project. And, you will probably agree with me that it is not the most exciting part of the project. Wouldn't it be great if this part could be automated?

AutoClean helps you exactly with that: it performs preprocessing and cleaning of data in Python in an automated manner, so that you can save time when working on your next project.

AutoClean supports:

• *Handling of duplicates [ NEW with version v1.1.0 ]
• Various imputation methods for missing values
• Handling of outliers
• Encoding of categorical data (OneHot, Label)
• Extraction of datatime values
• and more!

Basic Usage

AutoClean takes a Pandas dataframe as input and has a built-in logic of how to automatically clean and process your data. You can let your dataset run through the default AutoClean pipeline by using:

from AutoClean import AutoClean
pipeline = AutoClean(dataset)

The resulting output dataframe can be accessed by using:

pipeline.output

> Output:
    col_1  col_2  ...  col_n
1   data   data   ...  data
2   data   data   ...  data
... ...    ...    ...  ...

Adjustable Parameters

In some cases, the default settings of AutoClean might not optimally fit your data. Therefore it also supports manual settings so that you can adjust it to whatever processing steps you might need.

It has the following adjustable parameters, for which the options and descriptions can be found below:

AutoClean(dataset, mode='auto', duplicates=False, missing_num=False, missing_categ=False, 
          encode_categ=False, extract_datetime=False, outliers=False, outlier_param=1.5, 
          logfile=True, verbose=False)

Parameter	Type	Default Value	Other Values
mode	str	'auto'	'manual'
duplicates	str	False	'auto', True
missing_num	str	False	'auto', 'linreg', 'knn', 'mean', 'median', 'most_frequent', 'delete', False
missing_categ	str	False	'auto', 'logreg', 'knn', 'most_frequent', 'delete', False
encode_categ	list	False	'auto', ['onehot'], ['label'], False ; to encode only specific columns add a list of column names or indexes: ['auto', ['col1', 2]]
extract_datetime	str	False	'auto', 'D', 'M', 'Y', 'h', 'm', 's'
outliers	str	False	'auto', 'winz', 'delete'
outlier_param	int, float	1.5	any int or float, False
logfile	bool	True	False
verbose	bool	False	True

By setting the mode parameter, you can define in which mode AutoClean will run:

• Automated processing (mode = 'auto'): the data will be analyzed and cleaned automatically, by being passed through all the steps in the pipeline. All the parameters are set to = 'auto'.
• Manual processing (mode = 'manual'): you can manually define the processing steps that AutoClean will perform. All the parameters are set to False, except the ones that you define individually.

For example, you can choose to only handle outliers in your data, and skip all other processing steps by using:

pipeline = AutoClean(dataset, mode='manual', outliers='auto')

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Please see the AutoClean documentation on GitHub for a detailed usage guide and descriptions of the parameters.