Data Council Workshop

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8+
• Docker

Asking for help

To get assistence during the workshop, ask on the Soda Community Slack.

Register for the community Slack: https://go.soda.io/slack

And use the data-council-workshop channel

The Soda Core documentation

In the Soda Core documentation, you can find all information on how to get the CLI or library installed and how to use the open source project.

Get this repository

Clone the repository with git or download the zip file from this page.

Running the demo data docker container

Before installing the Soda CLI, we will first launch the demo data docker container. It's a single docker container that starts a Postgres database with the demo data preloaded on it.

Run convenience script scripts/start_postgres.sh Or run these commands individually:

cd postgres_demo_data
docker-compose up

You should see output like

[data-council-workshop] scripts/02_start_postgres.sh 
Starting postgres_demo_data_soda-sql-postgres_1 ... done
Attaching to postgres_demo_data_soda-sql-postgres_1
soda-sql-postgres_1  | ********************************************************************************
soda-sql-postgres_1  | WARNING: POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD has been set to "trust". This will allow
soda-sql-postgres_1  |          anyone with access to the Postgres port to access your database without
soda-sql-postgres_1  |          a password, even if POSTGRES_PASSWORD is set. See PostgreSQL
...
soda-sql-postgres_1  | waiting for server to start....LOG:  database system was shut down at 2022-03-19 09:35:46 UTC
soda-sql-postgres_1  | LOG:  MultiXact member wraparound protections are now enabled
soda-sql-postgres_1  | LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
soda-sql-postgres_1  | LOG:  autovacuum launcher started

Now you have a postgres database/warehouse with the demo data preloaded.

View the demo data on page postgres_demo_data/DATA.md

Now you will have to leave this console open until you want to stop the Postgres demo data docker container.

To stop the container (at the end of the workshop), simply press CTRL+C.

Installing the Soda CLI

To continue the workshop, start a new console because the postgres container is blocking the command line.

After you cloned / unzipped the repository, navigate to the data-council-workshop folder.

cd data-council-workshop

To check if you're in the right folder, ls should look like this

[data-council-workshop] ls 
LICENSE			checks			images			scripts
README.md		configuration		postgres_demo_data

Run convenience script scripts/create_venv.sh
Or run these commands individually:

rm -rf .venv
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install soda-core-postgres

You should see output like

[data-council-workshop] rm -rf .venv
[data-council-workshop] python3 -m venv .venv
[data-council-workshop] source .venv/bin/activate
(.venv) [data-council-workshop] pip install --upgrade pip
Requirement already satisfied: pip in ./.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (21.1.1)
Collecting pip
  Using cached pip-22.0.4-py3-none-any.whl (2.1 MB)
Installing collected packages: pip
  Attempting uninstall: pip
    Found existing installation: pip 21.1.1
    Uninstalling pip-21.1.1:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-21.1.1
Successfully installed pip-22.0.4
(.venv) [data-council-workshop] 
(.venv) [data-council-workshop] pip install --upgrade pip
Requirement already satisfied: pip in ./.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (21.1.1)
Collecting pip
  Using cached pip-22.0.4-py3-none-any.whl (2.1 MB)
Installing collected packages: pip
  Attempting uninstall: pip
    Found existing installation: pip 21.1.1
    Uninstalling pip-21.1.1:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-21.1.1
Successfully installed pip-22.0.4
(.venv) [data-council-workshop] pip install soda-core-postgres
Collecting soda-core-postgres
...
Successfully installed Deprecated-1.2.13 Jinja2-2.11.3 antlr4-python3-runtime-4.9.3 backoff-1.10.0 certifi-2021.10.8 charset-normalizer-2.0.12 click-8.0.4 googleapis-common-protos-1.56.0 idna-3.3 markupsafe-2.0.1 opentelemetry-api-1.10.0 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http-1.10.0 opentelemetry-proto-1.10.0 opentelemetry-sdk-1.10.0 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions-0.29b0 protobuf-3.19.4 psycopg2-binary-2.9.3 requests-2.27.1 ruamel.yaml-0.17.21 ruamel.yaml.clib-0.2.6 soda-core-3.0.0b1 soda-core-postgres-3.0.0b1 typing-extensions-4.1.1 urllib3-1.26.9 wrapt-1.14.0

Now verify that the installation went ok by entering command soda:

(.venv) [data-council-workshop] soda
Usage: soda [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Soda Core CLI version 3.0.0b1

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  scan    runs a scan
  update  updates a distribution reference file

Registering a Soda Cloud account

1. Sign up for a Soda Cloud account

2. Open configuration/configuration.yml in your favorite text editor

3. Create the API key. In your Soda Cloud account, navigate to your avatar > Profile and choose the API Keys tab, then click the plus icon to generate new API keys.

4. Copy the API Key ID, then paste it into the configuration.yml as the value for api_key.

5. Copy the API Key Secret, then paste it into the configuration.yml as the value for api_secret.

6. Save the changes to the configuration.yml file. Close the Create API Key dialog box in Soda Cloud.

The SodaCL documentation

In the next section you'll be executing and exploring SodaCL YAML files.

Reference the the SodaCL documentation, where you will find all information on how to write checks

Running the checks

Review the SodaCL file checks/01_basic_checks.yml in your text/YAML editor. If the checks in the file are not clear, ask us for help.

Run SodaCL file checks/01_basic_checks.yml

soda scan -c configuration/configuration.yml -d workshop_ds checks/01_basic_checks.yml

Feel free to try and make some changes. You can refer to the SodaCL documentation to see the possibilities. Try to make some updates and re-run the scan.

If you encounter issues:

Ask the community on Slack. Our experts will be monitoring the data-council-workshop channel extra closely during the workshop.

Run SodaCL file checks/02_advanced_and_cool.yml

soda scan -v "START=2022-02-24 00:00:00" -v "END=2022-02-25 00:00:00" -c configuration/configuration.yml -d workshop_ds checks/02_advanced_and_cool.yml

Finally, review the analyst use cases

Run SodaCL file checks/03_analyst_use_cases.yml

soda scan -c configuration/configuration.yml -d workshop_ds checks/03_analyst_use_cases.yml

Feedback

As this is the initial public release of our new SodaCL language, we want to hear what you think. Here are some questions that might help formulate your feedback.

• Would you recommend Soda Core to a collegue?
  • Why or why not?
  • Do you think it's more relevant to others in your organization? If so, who?
• What do you think is the most attractive feature?
• Any specific features missing?
• How would you compare SodaCL and Soda Core vs other open source data quality tools that you know?
• If you do not yet plan to use it right now, what is the most important blocker for you?

Let us know the data-council-workshop channel

Or if you prefer, send your feedback as an email to mailto:workshop@soda.io

Configuring the database in IntelliJ or Pycharm

This section is optional and only needed when you want to connect your PyCharm or IntelliJ to the Postgres DB containing the demo data. Feel free to use any other DB browser of your choice.

Host: localhost Port: 5432 Database: demo Username: soda Password not necessary

Or

URL: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/demo