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+ # Byte-compiled / optimized
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+ __pycache__/
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+ *.py[cod]
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+ *$py.class
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+
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+ # Distribution / packaging
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+ build/
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+ dist/
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+ *.egg-info/
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+ .eggs/
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+
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+ # Environments
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+ .venv/
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+ venv/
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+ .env
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+
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+ # uv — this is a library, so CI resolves fresh on every run to catch upstream
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+ # breakage. If you'd rather have reproducible CI, delete this line, commit
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+ # uv.lock, and add --frozen to the sync steps in ci.yml.
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+ uv.lock
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+
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+ # Tooling caches
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+ .mypy_cache/
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+ .ruff_cache/
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+ .pytest_cache/
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+ .hypothesis/
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+
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+ # Coverage
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+ .coverage
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+ .coverage.*
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+ coverage.xml
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+ htmlcov/
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+
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+ # Editors / OS
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+ .idea/
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+ .vscode/
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+ .DS_Store
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+
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+ # insightsmith runtime state
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+ .insightsmith/
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+
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+ # Local configuration files
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+ CLAUDE.md
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+ docs/
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+ # Changelog
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+
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+ All notable changes to this project are documented here. This file is generated
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+ by [git-cliff](https://github.com/orhun/git-cliff) from the commit history.
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+
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+ ## [0.1.0] - 2026-07-27
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+
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+ ### Bug fixes
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+
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+ - **sniff**: Read sparse non-ASCII as cp1252 and find headers after comments
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+
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+ ### Build and packaging
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+
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+ - Add packaging, tooling, CI and release workflows
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+ - Configure git-cliff and package the changelog
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+
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+ ### Documentation
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+
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+ - Add initial README
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+ - Add design specification
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+ - Add CLAUDE.md engineering rules
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+ - Rewrite the README for the 0.1.0 foundation
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+
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+ ### Features
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+
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+ - **sniff**: Detect source format via extension, magic bytes and dialect probe
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+ - **io**: Load csv, excel, parquet, arrow and json behind one interface
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+ - **profiling**: Add schema, statistics and quality checks
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+ - **cli**: Add `ismith look` with rich tables and --json
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+
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+ ### Housekeeping
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+
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+ - Stop tracking docs/ in git
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+ - Stop tracking CLAUDE.md in git
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+ - Ignore local-only CLAUDE.md and docs/
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+
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+ ### Testing
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+
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+ - Close the sqlite fixture connection explicitly
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+
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+ Metadata-Version: 2.4
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+ Name: insightsmith
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+ Version: 0.1.0
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+ Summary: Agentic data consultant that runs on your own hardware
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/SofianeOuaari/insightsmith
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+ Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/SofianeOuaari/insightsmith
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+ Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/SofianeOuaari/insightsmith/issues
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+ Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/SofianeOuaari/insightsmith/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
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+ Author: Sofiane Ouaari
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+ License-Expression: Apache-2.0
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Keywords: cli,data-analysis,data-profiling,eda,polars
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
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+ Classifier: Environment :: Console
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
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+ Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Information Analysis
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+ Classifier: Typing :: Typed
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.10
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+ Requires-Dist: charset-normalizer>=3.3
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+ Requires-Dist: polars>=1.0
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+ Requires-Dist: rich>=13.7
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+ Requires-Dist: typer>=0.12
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+ Provides-Extra: all
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+ Requires-Dist: fastexcel>=0.11; extra == 'all'
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+ Requires-Dist: pandas>=2.0; extra == 'all'
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+ Requires-Dist: pyarrow>=15; extra == 'all'
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+ Provides-Extra: excel
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+ Requires-Dist: fastexcel>=0.11; extra == 'excel'
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+ Provides-Extra: pandas
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+ Requires-Dist: pandas>=2.0; extra == 'pandas'
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+ Requires-Dist: pyarrow>=15; extra == 'pandas'
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+
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+ <div align="center">
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+
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+ # insightsmith
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+
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+ **Forging insight from raw data.**
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+
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+ An agentic data consultant that runs on your own machine.
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+
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+ </div>
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ > ### 0.1.0 is the foundation, not the whole thing
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+ >
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+ > This release ships the parts that need no LLM: **format detection, loading and
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+ > profiling**, behind `ismith look`. It is useful on its own — point it at a file
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+ > and it tells you what the file really is and what's wrong with the data.
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+ >
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+ > The agentic half — proposing analyses, writing and sandbox-executing code,
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+ > critiquing the statistics, writing a report — arrives across 0.4.0–0.8.0.
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+ > Nothing in this release talks to a model or the network.
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## What it does today
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install insightsmith
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+ ismith look data/sales.csv
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+ ```
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+
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+ ```
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+ ╭──────────────── source ─────────────────╮
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+ │ format csv │
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+ │ encoding cp1252 │
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+ │ dialect delimiter=';' decimal=',' │
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+ │ confidence 95% │
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+ │ assumed read as cp1252; charset- │
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+ │ normalizer suggested cp775 │
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+ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────╯
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+ umsatz.csv: 5 rows x 3 columns
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+ columns
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+ ┏━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
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+ ┃ column ┃ dtype ┃ semantic ┃ nulls ┃ unique ┃ detail ┃
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+ ┡━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
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+ │ region │ String │ categorical │ - │ 4 │ Nord (2) · Süd (1) │
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+ │ menge │ Int64 │ numeric │ - │ 5 │ min 4 · med 12 · max… │
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+ │ umsatz │ Float64 │ numeric │ - │ 5 │ min 40.75 · med 120.5 │
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+ └────────┴─────────┴─────────────┴───────┴────────┴───────────────────────┘
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+ candidate keys: menge
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+ ```
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+
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+ Add `--json` for the same profile as machine-readable output.
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+
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+ **Format detection doesn't trust the extension.** A three-stage cascade — extension
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+ hint, then magic bytes, then a text-dialect probe — where each stage can veto the
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+ one before it. A Parquet file named `.csv` is loaded as Parquet, and you're told
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+ the extension lied. Every result carries a confidence score and the list of
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+ assumptions behind it; below 80% those assumptions are printed rather than hidden.
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+
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+ It is built for the files that actually turn up: semicolon-delimited cp1252 CSVs
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+ with decimal commas and thousands separators, BOMs, comment preambles, quoted
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+ fields containing the delimiter, gzip and single-member zip wrappers.
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+
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+ **Profiling** reports per-column dtype and semantic type, null rates, cardinality,
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+ numeric summaries with outlier counts by two different methods, temporal ranges,
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+ text lengths, category frequencies, candidate keys, and quality notes: duplicate
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+ and near-duplicate rows, constant and near-constant columns, runaway cardinality,
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+ class imbalance.
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+
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+ ### As a library
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from insightsmith import load, profile, sniff
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+ spec = sniff("data/sales.csv")
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+ print(spec.format, spec.encoding, spec.confidence, spec.warnings)
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+
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+ frame = load(spec) # a Polars LazyFrame — nothing read yet
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+ result = profile(spec)
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+ print(result.summary())
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+ for issue in result.issues:
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+ print(issue.severity.value, issue.column, issue.message)
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+ ```
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+
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+ Polars `LazyFrame` is the internal representation throughout, so Parquet, Arrow,
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+ NDJSON and UTF-8 CSV are scanned rather than loaded.
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+
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+ **Formats loadable in 0.1.0:** csv, tsv, xlsx/xlsm (with `[excel]`), xls, parquet,
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+ feather/arrow, json, jsonl/ndjson. Detected-but-not-yet-loadable formats — sqlite,
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+ duckdb, xml, html, ods, orc, hdf5, spss, stata, sas — say so, and name the release
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+ that will handle them.
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+
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+ ## Install
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install insightsmith # csv, tsv, parquet, arrow, json, jsonl
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+ pip install insightsmith[excel] # + xlsx / xls
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+ pip install insightsmith[pandas] # + a .to_pandas() escape hatch
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+ ```
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+
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+ The base install is four dependencies — polars, typer, rich, charset-normalizer.
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+ No torch, no pandas, no agent framework. Extras stay optional on purpose.
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+
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+ ## What it won't do
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+
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+ Worth stating plainly, in advance:
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+
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+ - **Large files are profiled on a sample.** Above a size threshold the profile is
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+ built from a strided sample of the rows, and every affected statistic is marked
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+ `estimated`. Row counts remain exact; distributions are approximate.
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+ - **Encoding detection is a guess on small files.** Single-byte codepages are
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+ genuinely ambiguous in a few hundred bytes. Sparse non-ASCII text is read as
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+ cp1252 and the substitution is reported, but it can still be wrong.
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+ - **Statistics have edges.** The IQR fence is degenerate when the middle 50% of a
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+ column is a single value, so outliers are counted by a MAD-based modified
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+ z-score as well, and both numbers are shown. They disagree usefully.
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+ - **"Near-duplicate" means one specific thing** — identical once string columns
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+ are trimmed and case-folded. It is not fuzzy matching.
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+ - **Thousands separators are detected but not stripped.** polars has no option for
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+ them, so such columns may load as strings.
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+ - **No XML row-unit discovery, and zstd payloads aren't inspected** (no stdlib
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+ decompressor before Python 3.14).
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+
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+ And for the releases still to come: LLMs write wrong code confidently, the sandbox
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+ will be defense-in-depth rather than a security boundary, and a statistical critic
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+ reduces but does not remove statistical nonsense.
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+
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+ ## License
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+
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+ Apache-2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
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+ <div align="center">
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+
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+ # insightsmith
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+
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+ **Forging insight from raw data.**
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+
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+ An agentic data consultant that runs on your own machine.
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+
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+ </div>
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ > ### 0.1.0 is the foundation, not the whole thing
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+ >
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+ > This release ships the parts that need no LLM: **format detection, loading and
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+ > profiling**, behind `ismith look`. It is useful on its own — point it at a file
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+ > and it tells you what the file really is and what's wrong with the data.
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+ >
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+ > The agentic half — proposing analyses, writing and sandbox-executing code,
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+ > critiquing the statistics, writing a report — arrives across 0.4.0–0.8.0.
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+ > Nothing in this release talks to a model or the network.
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## What it does today
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install insightsmith
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+ ismith look data/sales.csv
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+ ```
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+
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+ ```
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+ ╭──────────────── source ─────────────────╮
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+ │ format csv │
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+ │ encoding cp1252 │
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+ │ dialect delimiter=';' decimal=',' │
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+ │ confidence 95% │
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+ │ assumed read as cp1252; charset- │
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+ │ normalizer suggested cp775 │
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+ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────╯
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+ umsatz.csv: 5 rows x 3 columns
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+ columns
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+ ┏━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
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+ ┃ column ┃ dtype ┃ semantic ┃ nulls ┃ unique ┃ detail ┃
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+ ┡━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
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+ │ region │ String │ categorical │ - │ 4 │ Nord (2) · Süd (1) │
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+ │ menge │ Int64 │ numeric │ - │ 5 │ min 4 · med 12 · max… │
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+ │ umsatz │ Float64 │ numeric │ - │ 5 │ min 40.75 · med 120.5 │
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+ └────────┴─────────┴─────────────┴───────┴────────┴───────────────────────┘
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+ candidate keys: menge
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+ ```
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+
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+ Add `--json` for the same profile as machine-readable output.
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+
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+ **Format detection doesn't trust the extension.** A three-stage cascade — extension
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+ hint, then magic bytes, then a text-dialect probe — where each stage can veto the
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+ one before it. A Parquet file named `.csv` is loaded as Parquet, and you're told
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+ the extension lied. Every result carries a confidence score and the list of
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+ assumptions behind it; below 80% those assumptions are printed rather than hidden.
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+ It is built for the files that actually turn up: semicolon-delimited cp1252 CSVs
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+ with decimal commas and thousands separators, BOMs, comment preambles, quoted
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+ fields containing the delimiter, gzip and single-member zip wrappers.
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+ **Profiling** reports per-column dtype and semantic type, null rates, cardinality,
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+ numeric summaries with outlier counts by two different methods, temporal ranges,
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+ text lengths, category frequencies, candidate keys, and quality notes: duplicate
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+ and near-duplicate rows, constant and near-constant columns, runaway cardinality,
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+ class imbalance.
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+
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+ ### As a library
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from insightsmith import load, profile, sniff
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+ spec = sniff("data/sales.csv")
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+ print(spec.format, spec.encoding, spec.confidence, spec.warnings)
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+ frame = load(spec) # a Polars LazyFrame — nothing read yet
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+ result = profile(spec)
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+ print(result.summary())
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+ for issue in result.issues:
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+ print(issue.severity.value, issue.column, issue.message)
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+ ```
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+ Polars `LazyFrame` is the internal representation throughout, so Parquet, Arrow,
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+ NDJSON and UTF-8 CSV are scanned rather than loaded.
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+ **Formats loadable in 0.1.0:** csv, tsv, xlsx/xlsm (with `[excel]`), xls, parquet,
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+ feather/arrow, json, jsonl/ndjson. Detected-but-not-yet-loadable formats — sqlite,
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+ duckdb, xml, html, ods, orc, hdf5, spss, stata, sas — say so, and name the release
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+ that will handle them.
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+
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+ ## Install
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install insightsmith # csv, tsv, parquet, arrow, json, jsonl
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+ pip install insightsmith[excel] # + xlsx / xls
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+ pip install insightsmith[pandas] # + a .to_pandas() escape hatch
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+ ```
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+ The base install is four dependencies — polars, typer, rich, charset-normalizer.
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+ No torch, no pandas, no agent framework. Extras stay optional on purpose.
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+
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+ ## What it won't do
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+ Worth stating plainly, in advance:
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+ - **Large files are profiled on a sample.** Above a size threshold the profile is
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+ built from a strided sample of the rows, and every affected statistic is marked
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+ `estimated`. Row counts remain exact; distributions are approximate.
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+ - **Encoding detection is a guess on small files.** Single-byte codepages are
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+ genuinely ambiguous in a few hundred bytes. Sparse non-ASCII text is read as
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+ cp1252 and the substitution is reported, but it can still be wrong.
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+ - **Statistics have edges.** The IQR fence is degenerate when the middle 50% of a
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+ column is a single value, so outliers are counted by a MAD-based modified
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+ z-score as well, and both numbers are shown. They disagree usefully.
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+ - **"Near-duplicate" means one specific thing** — identical once string columns
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+ are trimmed and case-folded. It is not fuzzy matching.
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+ - **Thousands separators are detected but not stripped.** polars has no option for
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+ them, so such columns may load as strings.
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+ - **No XML row-unit discovery, and zstd payloads aren't inspected** (no stdlib
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+ decompressor before Python 3.14).
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+
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+ And for the releases still to come: LLMs write wrong code confidently, the sandbox
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+ will be defense-in-depth rather than a security boundary, and a statistical critic
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+ reduces but does not remove statistical nonsense.
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+
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+ ## License
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+ Apache-2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).