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 Stream a Large JSONL File Line by Line in Python
Process a large JSON-lines file incrementally using streaming techniques to avoid loading the entire file into memory.
import json
def process_large_file(filepath, chunk_size=8192):
"""
Stream a large JSON-lines file line by line, processing each record
without loading the entire file into memory.
"""
total_count = 0
total_sum = 0
with open(filepath, 'r') as f:
while True:
chunk = …
How to Validate Fact Table Grain Row Counts in Python
Validate fact table grain by checking dimension key references, unique grain combinations, duplicate rows, and dimension cardinality from a CSV file.
import csv
import hashlib
from pathlib import Path
def validate_fact_grain(fact_file: Path, expected_dim_keys: dict[str, set[str]]) -> dict:
"""
Validate fact table grain by checking each row's dimension keys exist
in expected dimension tables and row count consistency.
"""
dim_references = {}
…
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