datadoc-cli 0.4.0__tar.gz → 0.6.0__tar.gz

datadoc_cli-0.6.0/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# Python
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+*.egg-info/
+dist/
+build/
+*.egg
+
+# Virtual environments
+.venv/
+venv/
+env/
+
+# IDE
+.vscode/
+.idea/
+*.swp
+*.swo
+
+# OS
+.DS_Store
+Thumbs.db
+
+# DATADOC generated outputs
+clean_*.csv
+pipeline_*.py
+report_*.md
+.release-verify/
+datadoc-run/
+full-run/
+titanic-run/
+telco-run/
+datadoc.toml
+
+# Local audit datasets (re-download from Kaggle; never ship)
+# NOTE: demo.csv and docs/demo.csv are TRACKED fixtures and stay tracked.
+/california_housing.csv
+/telco_churn.csv
+/titanic.csv
+/titanic-audit/*.csv
+/titanic-audit/*.joblib
+/titanic-audit/*.parquet
+/titanic-audit/*.txt
+/titanic-audit/full-run/
+/titanic-audit/wizard-run/
+/titanic-test/
+
+# Scratch / debug (dev-only, never ship)
+scratch_*
+diagnose*
+changes.diff
+*_test.csv
+*_output*.txt
+heavy_test.csv
+
+# Testing
+.pytest_cache/
+.playwright-cli/
+htmlcov/
+.coverage
+
+# Environment & Secrets
+.env
+.env.*

datadoc_cli-0.6.0/CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to DATADOC are documented here. Format follows Keep a Changelog and SemVer.
+
+## [0.6.0] - 2026-09-13
+### Added
+- `datadoc report`: Automated, standalone, high-fidelity HTML report generation (`datadoc report <dataset> [--target] [--output] [--title] [--preset]`). 100% self-contained single-file HTML with embedded responsive CSS, health grade scoring (A+ to F), column role classification, distribution statistics, and transformation plan.
+- `datadoc compare`: Visual side-by-side dataset comparison command (`datadoc compare <raw> <transformed> [--target] [--html] [--json]`). Computes dimension deltas, missing cell reduction (100% resolution tracking), column lineage/lifecycle (retained, dropped, engineered), and numeric distribution shifts (imputation and scaling effects) with color-coded terminal tables and interactive HTML export.
+- `TargetEncoderPlugin` (Priority 41): Empirical Bayes smoothed target encoding for high-cardinality categoricals: `y_hat = (n * cat_mean + m * global_mean) / (n + m)` to prevent target leakage and dimension explosion.
+- `PolynomialFeaturesPlugin` (Priority 44): Degree-2 interactions (`x1 * x2`) and squared features (`x^2`) for numeric columns to capture non-linear signal for linear models.
+- Dashboard enhancements: Added "View HTML Report" direct action in the header, navigation sidebar, and artifact actions panel.
+- UI Server API: Added `GET /api/dataset/report` (standalone HTML audit report) and `GET /api/dataset/compare` (side-by-side comparison metrics).
+- Standalone execution: Added `if __name__ == "__main__": app()` to `datadoc.cli.app`.
+
+## [0.5.0] - 2026-09-14
+### Added
+- `datadoc.toml` / `pyproject.toml [tool.datadoc]` config file support with flag overrides.
+- `datadoc wizard` guided TUI for `target`, `preset`, `drop_identifiers`, `deduplicate`, `scaling`, `clip_outliers`, `rare_frequency`; writes `datadoc.toml` + run dir.
+- Presets `--preset quick|balanced|linear|tree|time|robust` mapping to `scaling`, `clip_outliers`, `estimator_family`.
+- Short aliases `-t` / `-o` / `-p` / `-f` for `--target` / `--output` / `--pipeline` / `--format`.
+- Shell completion via Typer (`add_completion=True`) — `datadoc --install-completion`.
+- `datadoc diff` for `profile`/`plan`/`pipeline` JSON comparison (incl. ops added/removed).
+- `datadoc lint` leakage lint (target duplication, null target, infinities, duplicates, profile findings).
+- `datadoc plugins list|show` registry introspection, `datadoc.plugins` entry-points auto-discovery.
+- New deterministic plugins: `DuplicateRemoverPlugin` (P05), `RareCategoryPlugin` (P42); `CategoricalEncoderPlugin` threshold reconciled 10 → 20.
+- Pipeline artifact v2 with `provenance` (schema/columns hash, rows, dedup count, version); v1 artifacts still load.
+- `plan` now surfaces `deduplicate`, `outlier_clipping`, `scaling`, rare-grouping details; new `explain_plan()`.
+- `fit`/`run` flags: `--deduplicate`, `--rare-frequency`, `--cyclical`, `--no-hour`.
+- Repeatable `--identifier-column` / `--ignore-column` on `plan`/`fit`/`run` (also via `datadoc.toml` lists), reaching `PipelineConfig.identifier_columns` / `ignored_columns` which previously had no CLI path.
+- `transform --validate` via `drift_report()` (schema + median-shift drift).
+- `evaluate --ablation` via `evaluate_ablation()` (full / no_clip / no_scaling / minimal).
+- Notebook widgets: `profile_to_html()` + `_repr_html_()` for Jupyter/marimo.
+- `export --format python|joblib` via `export_sklearn_artifact()` (joblib needs `ml` extra).
+- Dashboard: Ctrl+K/Cmd+K palette, lineage panel (`/api/pipeline/lineage`), drift endpoint, new config knobs.
+- PyPI-ready wheel: `web/dist` force-included as `datadoc/_webui`, so `datadoc ui` serves the React app from a plain pip install (verified in a clean venv); `ui_server` falls back to the checkout path in dev.
+- `tomli>=2.0.0` dependency on Python < 3.11 for real TOML parsing.
+- New `RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md` (referenced by `docs/production.html`); `uv.lock` re-synced; `datadoc.__version__` added as the code-level version source.
+### Changed
+- `scikit-learn` moved back to optional `ml` extra for lighter core install.
+- `PipelineConfig` docs clarified `resolved_scaling` and `plan` exposure.
+- `run` now parities all `fit` flags.
+### Fixed
+- Removed `product_specification.md` (Retrod PMS orphan).
+- Fixed `CONTRIBUTING.md` pandas/engine refs.
+- `plan` no longer lets `datadoc.toml` silently override explicit `--drop-identifiers`/`--task` flags.
+- `wizard` crashed when delegating to `run` (unpassed params hit raw `typer.Option` defaults); all params are now explicit.
+- `diff`/`plan --diff` labels corrected to "Only in A/B" (were backwards "added/removed").
+- `estimator_family="both"` now truly fits linear + tree and keeps the stronger validation score (was silently tree-only); `resolved_scaling` maps `both` → `standard`.
+- Dashboard export template now emits an executable script (`__main__` + argparse) and restores `train_provenance_`.
+- Commented `datadoc.toml` (including the file `datadoc init` itself writes) crashed config loading on Python 3.10 without `tomli` — the fallback parser now strips inline comments and parses lists/quoted strings.
+- Fixed installed-dashboard path resolution (`datadoc/cli/_webui` → `datadoc/_webui`).
+- `strict_schema` now exposed via CLI/config.
+- CI re-added.
+
+## [0.4.0] - 2026-08-09
+### Added
+- Leakage-safe `DataDocPipeline` (`fit`/`transform`/`save`/`load`/`evaluate`/`export_python`) in `datadoc/core/pipeline.py`.
+- `PipelineConfig` with 17 knobs (`target`, `task`, `drop_identifiers`, `scaling`, `clip_outliers`, ...).
+- FastAPI dashboard `datadoc ui` + `web/` Vite+React.
+- Optional extras `ai` (litellm), `ml`, `ui`.
+### Changed
+- CLI narrowed to 7 commands `profile,plan,fit,transform,evaluate,export,run`; legacy `engine.py` removed.
+- Polars as primary backend.
+
+## [0.3.0] - 2026-07-28
+### Added
+- Agentic `agent.py` + `chat` command.
+- FastAPI `ui` via `fastapi/uvicorn/multipart`.
+
+## [0.2.0] - 2026-07-26
+### Added
+- Phase 2 AI planner `litellm`, `pydantic`, `dotenv`.
+- `chat` + `engineer --ai`.
+
+## [0.1.0] - 2026-07-26
+- Initial scaffold `typer/rich/pandas` + `MissingValuePlugin`.
+
+## Roadmap
+- Export targets `dbt` / Airflow (see README).
+- Text embeddings optional plugin.

{datadoc_cli-0.4.0 → datadoc_cli-0.6.0}/PKG-INFO

@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
-Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Metadata-Version: 2.3
 Name: datadoc-cli
-Version: 0.4.0
+Version: 0.6.0
 Summary: Leakage-safe, local-first preparation pipelines for tabular machine learning.
 Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/narain-karti/DATADOC
 Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/narain-karti/DATADOC
 Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/narain-karti/DATADOC/issues
 Author: narain-karti
-License-Expression: MIT
-License-File: LICENSE
+License: MIT
 Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
 Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
 Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
@@ -18,23 +17,29 @@ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
 Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
 Requires-Python: >=3.10
-Requires-Dist: numpy>=1.24.0
 Requires-Dist: plotext>=5.2.8
 Requires-Dist: polars>=0.20.0
 Requires-Dist: pydantic>=2.0.0
 Requires-Dist: python-dotenv>=1.0.0
 Requires-Dist: rich>=13.7.0
+Requires-Dist: tomli>=2.0.0; python_version < '3.11'
 Requires-Dist: typer>=0.12.0
 Provides-Extra: ai
 Requires-Dist: litellm>=1.40.0; extra == 'ai'
+Provides-Extra: all
+Requires-Dist: fastapi>=0.115.0; extra == 'all'
+Requires-Dist: litellm>=1.40.0; extra == 'all'
+Requires-Dist: python-multipart>=0.0.20; extra == 'all'
+Requires-Dist: scikit-learn>=1.7.2; extra == 'all'
+Requires-Dist: uvicorn>=0.30.0; extra == 'all'
 Provides-Extra: dev
 Requires-Dist: build>=1.2.0; extra == 'dev'
 Requires-Dist: hatchling>=1.25.0; extra == 'dev'
 Requires-Dist: pytest>=8.0.0; extra == 'dev'
 Requires-Dist: ruff>=0.4.0; extra == 'dev'
-Requires-Dist: scikit-learn>=1.4.0; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: scikit-learn>=1.7.2; extra == 'dev'
 Provides-Extra: ml
-Requires-Dist: scikit-learn>=1.4.0; extra == 'ml'
+Requires-Dist: scikit-learn>=1.7.2; extra == 'ml'
 Provides-Extra: ui
 Requires-Dist: fastapi>=0.115.0; extra == 'ui'
 Requires-Dist: python-multipart>=0.0.20; extra == 'ui'
@@ -92,6 +97,17 @@ DATADOC turns those steps into a reviewable, reusable pipeline.
 - **Optional AI planning:** AI can help explain or rank a constrained plan; it is never allowed to execute arbitrary generated code.
 - **Leakage-safe workflows:** Fitted statistics for imputation, categorical vocabularies, clipping, and scaling are learned from training data and saved as an artifact.
 
+### 📊 Empirical Proof: Does DATADOC Actually Improve Models?
+
+Yes. We benchmarked naive manual preparation vs. DATADOC automated preprocessing on Kaggle's Titanic dataset under **5-fold Stratified Cross-Validation**:
+
+| Model | Baseline (Naive Prep) | DATADOC Cleaned | Accuracy Δ | Relative Lift |
+|:---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
+| **Logistic Regression** | 78.90% ± 0.99% | **79.91% ± 1.90%** | **+1.01%** | **+1.28%** |
+| **Random Forest** | 82.15% ± 2.45% | **82.82% ± 2.40%** | **+0.67%** | **+0.82%** |
+
+*Why?* DATADOC extracts informative missingness indicators (`Age__missing`, `Cabin__missing`), frequency-encodes high-cardinality features (`Ticket`, `Cabin`), applies standard scaling, and isolates all statistics strictly to training splits to eliminate target leakage.
+
 ---
 
 ## 📦 Installation
@@ -109,30 +125,64 @@ pip install datadoc-cli
 ## 🛠️ Quick Start (CLI)
 
 You don't need to write a single line of Python to clean your data. Just use the CLI.
+New here? Run the guided wizard — it asks for target + preset and runs everything:
+
+```bash
+datadoc wizard train.csv
+```
+
+Or run the one-shot happy path (profile → plan → fit → transform + manifest):
 
 ```bash
+datadoc run train.csv --target churn --preset balanced --evaluate
+```
+
+Full step-by-step (auditable) workflow:
+
+```bash
+# 0. Optional: save repeatable settings (target, preset, scaling, ...)
+datadoc init --preset balanced  # writes datadoc.toml
+
 # 1. Inspect data-quality findings and column roles
-datadoc profile raw_data.csv --target churn --output profile.json
+datadoc profile raw_data.csv --target churn --explain --output profile.json
 
 # 2. Review the proposed transformations before applying them
-datadoc plan raw_data.csv --target churn --output plan.json
+datadoc plan raw_data.csv --target churn --explain --output plan.json
 
 # 3. Fit only on a training dataset, then save a reusable artifact
-datadoc fit train.csv --target churn --output artifacts/churn-pipeline.json
+datadoc fit train.csv --target churn --preset balanced --rare-frequency 0.02 --output artifacts/churn-pipeline.json
 
 # 4. Apply the fitted artifact to validation, test, or new data
-datadoc transform validation.csv --pipeline artifacts/churn-pipeline.json --output validation-features.parquet
+datadoc transform validation.csv --pipeline artifacts/churn-pipeline.json --output validation-features.parquet --validate
 
 # 5. Optionally benchmark a safe candidate pipeline against a baseline
 pip install "datadoc-cli[ml]"
-datadoc evaluate train.csv --target churn --task classification
+datadoc evaluate train.csv --target churn --task classification --ablation
 
 # 6. Export a small executable wrapper around the fitted artifact
 datadoc export --pipeline artifacts/churn-pipeline.json --output pipeline.py
+# or: datadoc export --pipeline artifacts/churn-pipeline.json --format joblib --output pipeline.joblib
 
+# 7. Generate a standalone, shareable HTML audit report
+datadoc report train.csv --target churn --output report.html
 
+# 8. Visually compare raw vs transformed datasets side-by-side
+datadoc compare train.csv validation-features.parquet --target churn --html compare.html
+
+# 9. Lint for leakage risks / diff two plans
+datadoc lint train.csv --target churn
+datadoc diff plan-v1.json plan-v2.json
 ```
 
+### 🖥️ Web dashboard (same pipeline, visual)
+
+```bash
+pip install "datadoc-cli[ui]"
+datadoc ui train.csv --port 8000
+```
+
+The local dashboard calls the same `DataDocPipeline` behind the CLI: profile findings and roles, preparation settings (target, scaling, identifiers, dedup, clipping, cyclical datetime, rare frequency), reviewable plan, fit with output-schema preview, lineage/provenance panel, transformed-CSV download, and an executable Python export. Press `Ctrl+K`/`Cmd+K` for the command palette. Full guide: [docs/ui.html](https://narain-karti.github.io/DATADOC/ui.html).
+
 ---
 
 ## 🐍 Python SDK (Library Usage)
@@ -161,13 +211,24 @@ For an observed model comparison, install the optional ML extra and call `pipeli
 
 | Command | Description |
 |---------|-------------|
-| `datadoc profile <file>` | Produces a data-quality report and confidence-scored column roles |
-| `datadoc plan <file>` | Outputs an explainable transformation plan without modifying data |
-| `datadoc fit <train>` | Learns a pipeline only from training data and saves JSON state |
-| `datadoc transform <file>` | Applies a saved pipeline to validation, test, or inference data |
-| `datadoc evaluate <file>` | Optionally compares a candidate pipeline with a baseline using leakage-aware splits |
-| `datadoc export` | Creates an executable wrapper for a saved pipeline artifact |
-| `datadoc run <file>` | Writes a profile, plan, artifact, transformed data, and lineage manifest |
+| `datadoc wizard <file>` | Guided TUI: asks target/preset/scaling, writes `datadoc.toml`, runs pipeline |
+| `datadoc init` | Writes a starter `datadoc.toml` (or `pyproject.toml [tool.datadoc]`) config |
+| `datadoc profile <file>` | Data-quality report + roles (`--explain`, `--compare profile2.json`) |
+| `datadoc plan <file>` | Explainable plan (`--explain`, `--diff plan2.json`) |
+| `datadoc fit <train>` | Learns pipeline on train only (`--preset`, `--deduplicate`, `--rare-frequency`, `--cyclical`, `--no-hour`, repeatable `--identifier-column` / `--ignore-column`) |
+| `datadoc transform <file>` | Applies saved artifact (`--validate` for schema + drift checks) |
+| `datadoc evaluate <file>` | Candidate vs baseline (`--ablation` for per-component deltas) |
+| `datadoc export` | Wrapper for artifact (`--format python\|joblib`) |
+| `datadoc run <file>` | One-shot profile→plan→fit→transform + `manifest.json` (+ `--evaluate --ablation`) |
+| `datadoc report <file>` | Generates a standalone, shareable HTML data health and preparation audit report |
+| `datadoc compare <raw> <trans>` | Visual side-by-side dataset comparison (terminal table + HTML export) |
+| `datadoc lint <file>` | Leakage/pitfall lint (target duplication, nulls, infinities, duplicates) |
+| `datadoc diff <a.json> <b.json>` | Diff profile/plan/pipeline artifacts |
+| `datadoc plugins list` | Lists 9 registered plugins (priorities, entry-points) |
+| `datadoc ui <file>` | Local FastAPI dashboard (Ctrl+K palette, lineage panel, HTML report export) |
+
+Short aliases: `-t/--target`, `-o/--output`, `-p/--pipeline`, `-f/--format`.
+Presets: `--preset quick|balanced|linear|tree|time|robust`. Shell completion: `datadoc --install-completion`.
 
 
 
@@ -179,13 +240,17 @@ DATADOC operates as a fitted pipeline. Every transformation learns state only fr
 
 | Priority | Plugin | Action Performed |
 |----------|--------|-------------|
+| 5 | **DuplicateRemoverPlugin** | Detects duplicate rows; `deduplicate=True` drops them at fit (train-only) |
 | 10 | **MissingValuePlugin** | Imputes missing numeric values with median, categorical with mode |
 | 20 | **OutlierPlugin** | Offers optional IQR clipping; clipping is not forced by default |
-| 30 | **DatetimePlugin** | Detects date strings and extracts year, month, day, day_of_week |
-| 40 | **CategoricalEncoderPlugin** | Encodes categories using training vocabularies and handles unseen values |
+| 30 | **DatetimePlugin** | Detects date strings and extracts year, month, day, day_of_week (+hour when time present, optional cyclical sin/cos) |
+| 40 | **CategoricalEncoderPlugin** | Encodes categories using training vocabularies (threshold 20) and handles unseen values |
+| 41 | **TargetEncoderPlugin** | Empirical Bayes smoothed target encoding: `(n * cat_mean + m * global_mean) / (n + m)` |
+| 42 | **RareCategoryPlugin** | Groups rare categories (< `rare_category_min_frequency`) into `__RARE__` |
+| 44 | **PolynomialFeaturesPlugin** | Generates degree-2 interaction terms (`x1 * x2`) and squared terms (`x^2`) |
 | 45 | **ScalingPlugin** | Applies configured standard or robust scaling, fit on training data only |
 
-The fitted pipeline is the production source of truth. Plugin work should follow the lifecycle `analyze → fit → transform → validate → export_code`, with all learned state serializable and testable.
+The fitted pipeline is the production source of truth. Plugin work should follow the lifecycle `analyze → recommend → apply`, with fitted state (`median`, `clip`, `vocabularies`, `rare maps`, `hour flags`, `center/spread`) serializable in `pipeline.json` (artifact v2 with `provenance`). External plugins auto-register via `datadoc.plugins` entry-points.
 
 Want to build your own? See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) to learn how to create and register custom plugins!
 
@@ -194,13 +259,17 @@ Want to build your own? See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) to learn how to c
 ## 🗺️ Roadmap
 
 - [x] Core Engine with plugin orchestration
-- [x] 5 Built-in deterministic plugins
-- [x] Stunning Rich Terminal UI
-- [x] Pipeline export capability
-- [x] Polars backend and local-first pipeline artifacts
+- [x] 9 Built-in deterministic plugins (duplicate, missing, outlier, datetime, encoder, target encoder, rare, polynomial, scaling)
+- [x] Stunning Rich Terminal UI (wizard, presets, `datadoc.toml`, completion)
+- [x] Pipeline export capability (`python` + `joblib`)
+- [x] Polars backend and local-first pipeline artifacts (v2 + provenance)
 - [x] PyPI Release (`pip install datadoc-cli`)
 - [x] Constrained optional AI planning path
-- [x] Session-scoped local FastAPI dashboard
+- [x] Session-scoped local FastAPI dashboard (Ctrl+K palette, lineage, drift)
+- [x] Addictive loop: `profile --compare`, `plan --explain/--diff`, `transform --validate`, `evaluate --ablation`
+- [x] Standalone HTML audit reports (`datadoc report`)
+- [x] Visual dataset comparison engine (`datadoc compare`)
+- [x] Notebook widgets (`profile_to_html`, `_repr_html_`)
 - [ ] Export targets for `dbt` and Apache Airflow
 - [x] Local FastAPI dashboard/API companion
 
@@ -214,4 +283,4 @@ This project is licensed under the MIT License. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for detai
 
 We welcome contributions from the community! If you'd like to add a new plugin or improve the core engine, please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
 
-Maintainers can use the [0.4.0 release checklist](RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md) when preparing a tag and PyPI upload.
+See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for the 0.6.0 release notes.

{datadoc_cli-0.4.0 → datadoc_cli-0.6.0}/README.md

@@ -32,22 +32,33 @@
 
 ## 🚀 What is DATADOC?
 
-**DATADOC** is a local-first CLI and Python library for preparing tabular data for machine learning. It profiles dataset risks, creates explainable transformation plans, and saves fitted pipelines that apply the same training-derived rules to validation, test, and inference data.
+**DATADOC** is a local-first CLI and Python library for preparing tabular data for machine learning. It profiles dataset risks, creates explainable transformation plans, and saves fitted pipelines that apply the same training-derived rules to validation, test, and inference data.
 
-Powered by **Polars**, DATADOC reads CSV and Parquet files, diagnoses missing values, identifiers, schema issues, duplicates, constants, and unsafe feature types. It does not promise model improvement: optional evaluation reports the observed result against a baseline under a reproducible split.
+Powered by **Polars**, DATADOC reads CSV and Parquet files, diagnoses missing values, identifiers, schema issues, duplicates, constants, and unsafe feature types. It does not promise model improvement: optional evaluation reports the observed result against a baseline under a reproducible split.
 
-**DATADOC is NOT just another EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis) tool.** It profiles data quality, lets you review a plan, fits transformations from training data, and hands you a portable artifact and Python wrapper for reuse.
+**DATADOC is NOT just another EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis) tool.** It profiles data quality, lets you review a plan, fits transformations from training data, and hands you a portable artifact and Python wrapper for reuse.
 
 ### ⚡ The Impact: Why Industry Professionals Use DATADOC
 
-Data Scientists and ML Engineers repeatedly rebuild the same preparation steps across projects.
-DATADOC turns those steps into a reviewable, reusable pipeline.
+Data Scientists and ML Engineers repeatedly rebuild the same preparation steps across projects.
+DATADOC turns those steps into a reviewable, reusable pipeline.
 
-- **Save boilerplate:** Review recommendations for imputing nulls, encoding categories, and optional scaling or clipping before applying them.
-- **Explainable by default:** The deterministic core records roles, findings, operations, protected columns, and fitted statistics in an inspectable artifact.
-- **Local-first:** The core package works offline. Optional ML, UI, and AI features are separate extras.
-- **Optional AI planning:** AI can help explain or rank a constrained plan; it is never allowed to execute arbitrary generated code.
-- **Leakage-safe workflows:** Fitted statistics for imputation, categorical vocabularies, clipping, and scaling are learned from training data and saved as an artifact.
+- **Save boilerplate:** Review recommendations for imputing nulls, encoding categories, and optional scaling or clipping before applying them.
+- **Explainable by default:** The deterministic core records roles, findings, operations, protected columns, and fitted statistics in an inspectable artifact.
+- **Local-first:** The core package works offline. Optional ML, UI, and AI features are separate extras.
+- **Optional AI planning:** AI can help explain or rank a constrained plan; it is never allowed to execute arbitrary generated code.
+- **Leakage-safe workflows:** Fitted statistics for imputation, categorical vocabularies, clipping, and scaling are learned from training data and saved as an artifact.
+
+### 📊 Empirical Proof: Does DATADOC Actually Improve Models?
+
+Yes. We benchmarked naive manual preparation vs. DATADOC automated preprocessing on Kaggle's Titanic dataset under **5-fold Stratified Cross-Validation**:
+
+| Model | Baseline (Naive Prep) | DATADOC Cleaned | Accuracy Δ | Relative Lift |
+|:---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
+| **Logistic Regression** | 78.90% ± 0.99% | **79.91% ± 1.90%** | **+1.01%** | **+1.28%** |
+| **Random Forest** | 82.15% ± 2.45% | **82.82% ± 2.40%** | **+0.67%** | **+0.82%** |
+
+*Why?* DATADOC extracts informative missingness indicators (`Age__missing`, `Cabin__missing`), frequency-encodes high-cardinality features (`Ticket`, `Cabin`), applies standard scaling, and isolates all statistics strictly to training splits to eliminate target leakage.
 
 ---
 
@@ -59,58 +70,92 @@ DATADOC is published on PyPI. You can install it globally via `pip` or `uv`:
 pip install datadoc-cli
 ```
 
-*(Requires Python 3.10+)*
+*(Requires Python 3.10+)*
 
 ---
 
 ## 🛠️ Quick Start (CLI)
 
 You don't need to write a single line of Python to clean your data. Just use the CLI.
+New here? Run the guided wizard — it asks for target + preset and runs everything:
+
+```bash
+datadoc wizard train.csv
+```
+
+Or run the one-shot happy path (profile → plan → fit → transform + manifest):
 
 ```bash
-# 1. Inspect data-quality findings and column roles
-datadoc profile raw_data.csv --target churn --output profile.json
-
-# 2. Review the proposed transformations before applying them
-datadoc plan raw_data.csv --target churn --output plan.json
-
-# 3. Fit only on a training dataset, then save a reusable artifact
-datadoc fit train.csv --target churn --output artifacts/churn-pipeline.json
-
-# 4. Apply the fitted artifact to validation, test, or new data
-datadoc transform validation.csv --pipeline artifacts/churn-pipeline.json --output validation-features.parquet
-
-# 5. Optionally benchmark a safe candidate pipeline against a baseline
-pip install "datadoc-cli[ml]"
-datadoc evaluate train.csv --target churn --task classification
-
-# 6. Export a small executable wrapper around the fitted artifact
-datadoc export --pipeline artifacts/churn-pipeline.json --output pipeline.py
+datadoc run train.csv --target churn --preset balanced --evaluate
+```
+
+Full step-by-step (auditable) workflow:
+
+```bash
+# 0. Optional: save repeatable settings (target, preset, scaling, ...)
+datadoc init --preset balanced  # writes datadoc.toml
+
+# 1. Inspect data-quality findings and column roles
+datadoc profile raw_data.csv --target churn --explain --output profile.json
+
+# 2. Review the proposed transformations before applying them
+datadoc plan raw_data.csv --target churn --explain --output plan.json
+
+# 3. Fit only on a training dataset, then save a reusable artifact
+datadoc fit train.csv --target churn --preset balanced --rare-frequency 0.02 --output artifacts/churn-pipeline.json
 
+# 4. Apply the fitted artifact to validation, test, or new data
+datadoc transform validation.csv --pipeline artifacts/churn-pipeline.json --output validation-features.parquet --validate
 
+# 5. Optionally benchmark a safe candidate pipeline against a baseline
+pip install "datadoc-cli[ml]"
+datadoc evaluate train.csv --target churn --task classification --ablation
+
+# 6. Export a small executable wrapper around the fitted artifact
+datadoc export --pipeline artifacts/churn-pipeline.json --output pipeline.py
+# or: datadoc export --pipeline artifacts/churn-pipeline.json --format joblib --output pipeline.joblib
+
+# 7. Generate a standalone, shareable HTML audit report
+datadoc report train.csv --target churn --output report.html
+
+# 8. Visually compare raw vs transformed datasets side-by-side
+datadoc compare train.csv validation-features.parquet --target churn --html compare.html
+
+# 9. Lint for leakage risks / diff two plans
+datadoc lint train.csv --target churn
+datadoc diff plan-v1.json plan-v2.json
+```
+
+### 🖥️ Web dashboard (same pipeline, visual)
+
+```bash
+pip install "datadoc-cli[ui]"
+datadoc ui train.csv --port 8000
 ```
 
+The local dashboard calls the same `DataDocPipeline` behind the CLI: profile findings and roles, preparation settings (target, scaling, identifiers, dedup, clipping, cyclical datetime, rare frequency), reviewable plan, fit with output-schema preview, lineage/provenance panel, transformed-CSV download, and an executable Python export. Press `Ctrl+K`/`Cmd+K` for the command palette. Full guide: [docs/ui.html](https://narain-karti.github.io/DATADOC/ui.html).
+
 ---
 
 ## 🐍 Python SDK (Library Usage)
 
-DATADOC is also a Python library. The stable workflow is `profile → plan → fit → transform`; the same fitted artifact can be used in notebooks, services, and batch jobs:
+DATADOC is also a Python library. The stable workflow is `profile → plan → fit → transform`; the same fitted artifact can be used in notebooks, services, and batch jobs:
 
 ```python
-from datadoc import DataDocPipeline, PipelineConfig
-import polars as pl
-
-# Fit only on the training split. The target is protected from feature transforms.
-train_df = pl.read_csv("train.csv")
-pipeline = DataDocPipeline(PipelineConfig(target="churn")).fit(train_df)
-pipeline.save("artifacts/churn-pipeline.json")
-
-# Transform data that was never used to fit statistics.
-validation_df = pl.read_csv("validation.csv")
-validation_features = pipeline.transform(validation_df)
-```
-
-For an observed model comparison, install the optional ML extra and call `pipeline.evaluate(train_df)` or `datadoc evaluate`. Evaluation is evidence for the declared task and split strategy; it is not a promise that cleaning always improves a model.
+from datadoc import DataDocPipeline, PipelineConfig
+import polars as pl
+
+# Fit only on the training split. The target is protected from feature transforms.
+train_df = pl.read_csv("train.csv")
+pipeline = DataDocPipeline(PipelineConfig(target="churn")).fit(train_df)
+pipeline.save("artifacts/churn-pipeline.json")
+
+# Transform data that was never used to fit statistics.
+validation_df = pl.read_csv("validation.csv")
+validation_features = pipeline.transform(validation_df)
+```
+
+For an observed model comparison, install the optional ML extra and call `pipeline.evaluate(train_df)` or `datadoc evaluate`. Evaluation is evidence for the declared task and split strategy; it is not a promise that cleaning always improves a model.
 
 ---
 
@@ -118,13 +163,24 @@ For an observed model comparison, install the optional ML extra and call `pipeli
 
 | Command | Description |
 |---------|-------------|
-| `datadoc profile <file>` | Produces a data-quality report and confidence-scored column roles |
-| `datadoc plan <file>` | Outputs an explainable transformation plan without modifying data |
-| `datadoc fit <train>` | Learns a pipeline only from training data and saves JSON state |
-| `datadoc transform <file>` | Applies a saved pipeline to validation, test, or inference data |
-| `datadoc evaluate <file>` | Optionally compares a candidate pipeline with a baseline using leakage-aware splits |
-| `datadoc export` | Creates an executable wrapper for a saved pipeline artifact |
-| `datadoc run <file>` | Writes a profile, plan, artifact, transformed data, and lineage manifest |
+| `datadoc wizard <file>` | Guided TUI: asks target/preset/scaling, writes `datadoc.toml`, runs pipeline |
+| `datadoc init` | Writes a starter `datadoc.toml` (or `pyproject.toml [tool.datadoc]`) config |
+| `datadoc profile <file>` | Data-quality report + roles (`--explain`, `--compare profile2.json`) |
+| `datadoc plan <file>` | Explainable plan (`--explain`, `--diff plan2.json`) |
+| `datadoc fit <train>` | Learns pipeline on train only (`--preset`, `--deduplicate`, `--rare-frequency`, `--cyclical`, `--no-hour`, repeatable `--identifier-column` / `--ignore-column`) |
+| `datadoc transform <file>` | Applies saved artifact (`--validate` for schema + drift checks) |
+| `datadoc evaluate <file>` | Candidate vs baseline (`--ablation` for per-component deltas) |
+| `datadoc export` | Wrapper for artifact (`--format python\|joblib`) |
+| `datadoc run <file>` | One-shot profile→plan→fit→transform + `manifest.json` (+ `--evaluate --ablation`) |
+| `datadoc report <file>` | Generates a standalone, shareable HTML data health and preparation audit report |
+| `datadoc compare <raw> <trans>` | Visual side-by-side dataset comparison (terminal table + HTML export) |
+| `datadoc lint <file>` | Leakage/pitfall lint (target duplication, nulls, infinities, duplicates) |
+| `datadoc diff <a.json> <b.json>` | Diff profile/plan/pipeline artifacts |
+| `datadoc plugins list` | Lists 9 registered plugins (priorities, entry-points) |
+| `datadoc ui <file>` | Local FastAPI dashboard (Ctrl+K palette, lineage panel, HTML report export) |
+
+Short aliases: `-t/--target`, `-o/--output`, `-p/--pipeline`, `-f/--format`.
+Presets: `--preset quick|balanced|linear|tree|time|robust`. Shell completion: `datadoc --install-completion`.
 
 
 
@@ -132,17 +188,21 @@ For an observed model comparison, install the optional ML extra and call `pipeli
 
 ## 🧩 Architecture & Plugins
 
-DATADOC operates as a fitted pipeline. Every transformation learns state only from training data, saves that state to JSON, and reuses it unchanged for later datasets.
+DATADOC operates as a fitted pipeline. Every transformation learns state only from training data, saves that state to JSON, and reuses it unchanged for later datasets.
 
 | Priority | Plugin | Action Performed |
 |----------|--------|-------------|
+| 5 | **DuplicateRemoverPlugin** | Detects duplicate rows; `deduplicate=True` drops them at fit (train-only) |
 | 10 | **MissingValuePlugin** | Imputes missing numeric values with median, categorical with mode |
-| 20 | **OutlierPlugin** | Offers optional IQR clipping; clipping is not forced by default |
-| 30 | **DatetimePlugin** | Detects date strings and extracts year, month, day, day_of_week |
-| 40 | **CategoricalEncoderPlugin** | Encodes categories using training vocabularies and handles unseen values |
-| 45 | **ScalingPlugin** | Applies configured standard or robust scaling, fit on training data only |
+| 20 | **OutlierPlugin** | Offers optional IQR clipping; clipping is not forced by default |
+| 30 | **DatetimePlugin** | Detects date strings and extracts year, month, day, day_of_week (+hour when time present, optional cyclical sin/cos) |
+| 40 | **CategoricalEncoderPlugin** | Encodes categories using training vocabularies (threshold 20) and handles unseen values |
+| 41 | **TargetEncoderPlugin** | Empirical Bayes smoothed target encoding: `(n * cat_mean + m * global_mean) / (n + m)` |
+| 42 | **RareCategoryPlugin** | Groups rare categories (< `rare_category_min_frequency`) into `__RARE__` |
+| 44 | **PolynomialFeaturesPlugin** | Generates degree-2 interaction terms (`x1 * x2`) and squared terms (`x^2`) |
+| 45 | **ScalingPlugin** | Applies configured standard or robust scaling, fit on training data only |
 
-The fitted pipeline is the production source of truth. Plugin work should follow the lifecycle `analyze → fit → transform → validate → export_code`, with all learned state serializable and testable.
+The fitted pipeline is the production source of truth. Plugin work should follow the lifecycle `analyze → recommend → apply`, with fitted state (`median`, `clip`, `vocabularies`, `rare maps`, `hour flags`, `center/spread`) serializable in `pipeline.json` (artifact v2 with `provenance`). External plugins auto-register via `datadoc.plugins` entry-points.
 
 Want to build your own? See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) to learn how to create and register custom plugins!
 
@@ -151,15 +211,19 @@ Want to build your own? See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) to learn how to c
 ## 🗺️ Roadmap
 
 - [x] Core Engine with plugin orchestration
-- [x] 5 Built-in deterministic plugins
-- [x] Stunning Rich Terminal UI
-- [x] Pipeline export capability
-- [x] Polars backend and local-first pipeline artifacts
+- [x] 9 Built-in deterministic plugins (duplicate, missing, outlier, datetime, encoder, target encoder, rare, polynomial, scaling)
+- [x] Stunning Rich Terminal UI (wizard, presets, `datadoc.toml`, completion)
+- [x] Pipeline export capability (`python` + `joblib`)
+- [x] Polars backend and local-first pipeline artifacts (v2 + provenance)
 - [x] PyPI Release (`pip install datadoc-cli`)
-- [x] Constrained optional AI planning path
-- [x] Session-scoped local FastAPI dashboard
+- [x] Constrained optional AI planning path
+- [x] Session-scoped local FastAPI dashboard (Ctrl+K palette, lineage, drift)
+- [x] Addictive loop: `profile --compare`, `plan --explain/--diff`, `transform --validate`, `evaluate --ablation`
+- [x] Standalone HTML audit reports (`datadoc report`)
+- [x] Visual dataset comparison engine (`datadoc compare`)
+- [x] Notebook widgets (`profile_to_html`, `_repr_html_`)
 - [ ] Export targets for `dbt` and Apache Airflow
-- [x] Local FastAPI dashboard/API companion
+- [x] Local FastAPI dashboard/API companion
 
 ---
 
@@ -167,8 +231,8 @@ Want to build your own? See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) to learn how to c
 
 This project is licensed under the MIT License. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.
 
-## 🤝 Contributing
-
-We welcome contributions from the community! If you'd like to add a new plugin or improve the core engine, please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
-
-Maintainers can use the [0.4.0 release checklist](RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md) when preparing a tag and PyPI upload.
+## 🤝 Contributing
+
+We welcome contributions from the community! If you'd like to add a new plugin or improve the core engine, please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for the 0.6.0 release notes.