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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.

pandas excel data cleaning
Python
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…
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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.

streaming jsonl large-files
Python
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 = …
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Data pipelines & processing medium

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.

csv data validation etl
Python
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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