testdat -- Unit testing for tabular data
Channel: Aaron Schumacher
Date: 2014-07-18

csv,conf 2014 http://csvconf.com/

testdat -- Unit testing for tabular data

Karthik Ram https://twitter.com/_inundata

Karthik Ram is a co-founder of ROpenSci, and is currently a data science fellow at the University of California's Berkeley Institute for Data Science.

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In this talk I will demo a new R package, testdat, that provides a suite of functions that allow users to unit test tabular data, much like unit testing for code. Our package allows researchers to write expectations, as one would do with code, and quickly identify cryptic issues, especially when reading large numbers of files. We also describe the major functionality of testdat along with a few use-cases and related tools. (full abstract: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2223411/csv_conf.pdf)
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