SDTA: An Algebra for Statistical Data Transformation
SDTA: An Algebra for Statistical Data Transformation
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SDTA:统计数据转换的代数
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10.1145/3468791.3468811
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2021
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Alter, George
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Song, Jie;Jagadish, H. V.;Alter, George
Statistical data manipulation is a crucial component of many data science analytic pipelines, particularly as part of data ingestion. This task is generally accomplished by writing transformation scripts in languages such as SPSS, Stata, SAS, R, Python (Pandas) and etc. The disparate data models, language representations and transformation operations supported by these tools make it hard for end users to understand and document the transformations performed, and for developers to port transformation code across languages.Tackling these challenges, we present a formal paradigm for statistical data transformation. It consists of a data model, called Structured Data Transformation Data Model (SDTDM), inspired by the data models of multiple statistical transformations frameworks; an algebra, Structural Data Transformation Algebra (SDTA), with the ability to transform not only data within SDTDM but also metadata at multiple structural levels; and an equivalent descriptive counterpart, called Structured Data Transformation Language (SDTL), recently adopted by the DDI Alliance that maintains international standards for metadata as part of its suite of products. Experiments with real statistical transformations on socio-economic data show that SDTL can successfully represent 86.1% and 91.6% respectively of 4,185 commands in SAS and 9,087 commands in SPSS obtained from a repository.We illustrate with examples how SDTA/SDTL could assist with the documentation of statistical data transformation, an important aspect often neglected in metadata of datasets. We propose a system called C2Metadata that automatically captures the transformation and provenance information in SDTL as a part of the metadata. Moreover, given the conversion mechanism from a source statistical language to SDTA/SDTL, we show how functional-equivalent transformation programs could be converted to other functionally equivalent programs, in the same or different language, permitting code reuse and result reproducibility, We also illustrate the possibility of using of SDTA to optimize SDTL transformations using rule-based rewrites similar to SQL optimizations.
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