Data pipelines & processing
ETL-style flows, batch transforms, validation, and moving data between formats.
Build a Python Utility That Detects Duplicate Records Across Multiple Excel Sheets
A Python utility that uses pandas to find overlapping records across different Excel sheets based on specified key columns.
import pandas as pd
from pathlib import Path
def find_duplicate_records_across_sheets(file_path: str, key_columns: list, sheet_names: list) -> dict:
"""
Detect duplicate records across multiple Excel sheets based on specified key columns.
Args:
file_path: Path to the Excel file
key_co…
How to Implement Slowly Changing Dimension Type 2 History in Python
Build a type-2 slowly changing dimension pipeline that closes old records and opens new ones when customer data changes.
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
def apply_scd_type2(records, current_date):
"""Returns active records after inserting new records with type-2 history."""
history = []
active = {}
for record in records:
key = record["customer_id"]
if key in active:
active[key]["end…
How to perform a star schema join in Python
Denormalize mock fact and dimension tables by building lookup dicts and enriching each sales fact with customer, product, and date attributes.
from datetime import date
# Mock dimension tables
customers = [
{"customer_id": 1, "name": "Alice", "city": "New York"},
{"customer_id": 2, "name": "Bob", "city": "Los Angeles"},
{"customer_id": 3, "name": "Carol", "city": "Chicago"},
]
products = [
{"product_id": 101, "name": "Laptop", "category": "…
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