API reference

This page lists all available functions and classes of skrub.

Joining tables

fuzzy_join

Fuzzy (approximate) join.

Joiner	Augment features in a main table by fuzzy-joining an auxiliary table to it.
AggJoiner	Aggregate auxiliary dataframes before joining them on a base dataframe.
AggTarget	Aggregate a target y before joining its aggregation on a base dataframe.

InterpolationJoiner

Join with a table augmented by machine-learning predictions.

Column selection in a pipeline

SelectCols	Select a subset of a DataFrame's columns.
DropCols	Drop a subset of a DataFrame's columns.

Vectorizing a dataframe

TableVectorizer

Automatically transform a heterogeneous dataframe to a numerical array.

Dirty category encoders

GapEncoder	Constructs latent topics with continuous encoding.
MinHashEncoder	Encode string categorical features by applying the MinHash method to n-gram decompositions of strings.
SimilarityEncoder	Encode string categories to a similarity matrix, to capture fuzziness across a few categories.

Dealing with dates

DatetimeEncoder

Transforms each datetime column into several numeric columns for temporal features (e.g year, month, day...).

to_datetime

Convert the columns of a dataframe or 2d array into a datetime representation.

Deduplication: merging variants of the same entry

deduplicate

Deduplicate categorical data by hierarchically clustering similar strings.

Data download and generation

datasets.fetch_employee_salaries	Fetches the employee salaries dataset (regression), available at https://openml.org/d/42125
datasets.fetch_medical_charge	Fetches the medical charge dataset (regression), available at https://openml.org/d/42720
datasets.fetch_midwest_survey	Fetches the midwest survey dataset (classification), available at https://openml.org/d/42805
datasets.fetch_open_payments	Fetches the open payments dataset (classification), available at https://openml.org/d/42738
datasets.fetch_road_safety	Fetches the road safety dataset (classification), available at https://openml.org/d/42803
datasets.fetch_traffic_violations	Fetches the traffic violations dataset (classification), available at https://openml.org/d/42132
datasets.fetch_drug_directory	Fetches the drug directory dataset (classification), available at https://openml.org/d/43044
datasets.fetch_world_bank_indicator	Fetches a dataset of an indicator from the World Bank open data platform.
datasets.fetch_movielens	Fetches a dataset from Movielens.
datasets.fetch_ken_table_aliases	Get the supported aliases of embedded KEN entities tables.
datasets.fetch_ken_types	Helper function to search for KEN entity types.
datasets.fetch_ken_embeddings	Download Wikipedia embeddings by type.
datasets.make_deduplication_data	Duplicates examples with spelling mistakes.