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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 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.

scd dimension history
Python
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…
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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.

star-schema data-joins dimensional-modeling
Python
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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