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flins data

The flins.csv file is some sample data obtained from https://support.spatialkey.com/spatialkey-sample-csv-data.

Vertical-tabular format is good for a quick look at CSV data layout -- seeing what columns you have to work with, as this is a file big enough that we can't just see it on a single screenful:

wc -l data/flins.csv
   36635 data/flins.csv
mlr --c2x --from data/flins.csv head -n 2
policyID           119736
statecode          FL
county             CLAY COUNTY
eq_site_limit      498960
hu_site_limit      498960
fl_site_limit      498960
fr_site_limit      498960
tiv_2011           498960
tiv_2012           792148.9
eq_site_deductible 0
hu_site_deductible 9979.2
fl_site_deductible 0
fr_site_deductible 0
point_latitude     30.102261
point_longitude    -81.711777
line               Residential
construction       Masonry
point_granularity  1

policyID           448094
statecode          FL
county             CLAY COUNTY
eq_site_limit      1322376.3
hu_site_limit      1322376.3
fl_site_limit      1322376.3
fr_site_limit      1322376.3
tiv_2011           1322376.3
tiv_2012           1438163.57
eq_site_deductible 0
hu_site_deductible 0
fl_site_deductible 0
fr_site_deductible 0
point_latitude     30.063936
point_longitude    -81.707664
line               Residential
construction       Masonry
point_granularity  3

A few simple queries:

mlr --c2p --from data/flins.csv count-distinct -f county | head
county              count
CLAY COUNTY         363
SUWANNEE COUNTY     154
NASSAU COUNTY       135
COLUMBIA COUNTY     125
ST  JOHNS COUNTY    657
BAKER COUNTY        70
BRADFORD COUNTY     31
HAMILTON COUNTY     35
UNION COUNTY        15
mlr --c2p --from data/flins.csv count-distinct -f line
line        count
Residential 30838
Commercial  5796

Categorization of total insured value:

mlr --c2x --from data/flins.csv stats1 -a min,mean,max -f tiv_2012
tiv_2012_min  73.37
tiv_2012_mean 2571004.0973420837
tiv_2012_max  1701000000
mlr --c2p --from data/flins.csv \
  stats1 -a min,mean,max -f tiv_2012 -g construction,line
construction        line        tiv_2012_min tiv_2012_mean      tiv_2012_max
Masonry             Residential 261168.07    1041986.1292168079 3234970.92
Wood                Residential 73.37        113493.01704925536 649046.12
Reinforced Concrete Commercial  6416016.01   20212428.681839883 60570000
Reinforced Masonry  Commercial  1287817.34   4621372.981117158  16650000
Steel Frame         Commercial  29790000     133492500          1701000000
mlr --c2x --from data/flins.csv \
  stats1 -a p0,p10,p50,p90,p95,p99,p100 -f hu_site_deductible
hu_site_deductible_p0   0
hu_site_deductible_p10  0
hu_site_deductible_p50  0
hu_site_deductible_p90  76.5
hu_site_deductible_p95  6829.2
hu_site_deductible_p99  126270
hu_site_deductible_p100 7380000
mlr --c2p --from data/flins.csv \
  stats1 -a p95,p99,p100 -f hu_site_deductible -g county \
  then sort -f county | head
county              hu_site_deductible_p95 hu_site_deductible_p99 hu_site_deductible_p100
ALACHUA COUNTY      30630.6                107312.4               1641375
BAKER COUNTY        0                      0                      0
BAY COUNTY          26131.5                181912.5               630000
BRADFORD COUNTY     3355.2                 8163                   8163
BREVARD COUNTY      5360.4                 78975                  1973461.5
BROWARD COUNTY      0                      148500                 3258900
CALHOUN COUNTY      0                      33339.6                33339.6
CHARLOTTE COUNTY    5400                   52650                  250994.7
CITRUS COUNTY       1332.9                 79974.9                483785.1
mlr --c2x --from data/flins.csv \
  stats2 -a corr,linreg-ols,r2 -f tiv_2011,tiv_2012
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_corr  0.9730497632351692
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_m 0.9835583980337723
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_b 433854.6428968317
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_n 36634
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_r2    0.9468258417320189
mlr --c2x --from data/flins.csv --ofmt '%.4f' \
  stats2 -a corr,linreg-ols,r2 -f tiv_2011,tiv_2012 -g county \
  then head -n 5
county                  CLAY COUNTY
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_corr  0.9627
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_m 1.0901
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_b 46450.5313
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_n 363
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_r2    0.9268

county                  SUWANNEE COUNTY
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_corr  0.9892
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_m 1.0747
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_b 36253.0032
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_n 154
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_r2    0.9785

county                  NASSAU COUNTY
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_corr  0.9731
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_m 1.2963
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_b -45369.2427
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_n 135
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_r2    0.9470

county                  COLUMBIA COUNTY
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_corr  0.9995
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_m 0.9314
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_b 117183.5484
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_n 125
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_r2    0.9990

county                  ST  JOHNS COUNTY
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_corr  0.9662
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_m 1.2301
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_b -596.6239
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_n 657
tiv_2011_tiv_2012_r2    0.9335

Color/shape data

The data/colored-shapes.dkvp file is some sample data produced by the mkdat2 script. The idea is:

  • Produce some data with known distributions and correlations, and verify that Miller recovers those properties empirically.
  • Each record is labeled with one of a few colors and one of a few shapes.
  • The flag field is 0 or 1, with probability dependent on color
  • The u field is plain uniform on the unit interval.
  • The v field is the same, except tightly correlated with u for red circles.
  • The w field is autocorrelated for each color/shape pair.
  • The x field is boring Gaussian with mean 5 and standard deviation about 1.2, with no dependence on color or shape.

Peek at the data:

wc -l data/colored-shapes.dkvp
   10078 data/colored-shapes.dkvp
head -n 6 data/colored-shapes.dkvp | mlr --opprint cat
color  shape    flag i   u        v        w        x
yellow triangle 1    56  0.632170 0.988721 0.436498 5.798188
red    square   1    80  0.219668 0.001257 0.792778 2.944117
red    circle   1    84  0.209017 0.290052 0.138103 5.065034
red    square   0    243 0.956274 0.746720 0.775542 7.117831
purple triangle 0    257 0.435535 0.859129 0.812290 5.753095
red    square   0    322 0.201551 0.953110 0.771991 5.612050

Look at uncategorized stats (using creach for spacing).

Here it looks reasonable that u is unit-uniform; something's up with v but we can't yet see what:

mlr --oxtab stats1 -a min,mean,max -f flag,u,v data/colored-shapes.dkvp | creach 3
flag_min  0
flag_mean 0.39888866838658465
flag_max  1

u_min     0.000044
u_mean    0.49832634262750525
u_max     0.999969

v_min     -0.092709
v_mean    0.49778696586624427
v_max     1.0725

The histogram shows the different distribution of 0/1 flags:

mlr --opprint histogram -f flag,u,v --lo -0.1 --hi 1.1 --nbins 12 data/colored-shapes.dkvp
bin_lo                bin_hi              flag_count u_count v_count
-0.010000000000000002 0.09000000000000002 6058       0       36
0.09000000000000002   0.19000000000000003 0          1062    988
0.19000000000000003   0.29000000000000004 0          985     1003
0.29000000000000004   0.39000000000000007 0          1024    1014
0.39000000000000007   0.4900000000000001  0          1002    991
0.4900000000000001    0.5900000000000002  0          989     1041
0.5900000000000002    0.6900000000000002  0          1001    1016
0.6900000000000002    0.7900000000000001  0          972     962
0.7900000000000001    0.8900000000000002  0          1035    1070
0.8900000000000002    0.9900000000000002  0          995     993
0.9900000000000002    1.0900000000000003  4020       1013    939
1.0900000000000003    1.1900000000000002  0          0       25

Look at univariate stats by color and shape. In particular, color-dependent flag probabilities pop out, aligning with their original Bernoulli probablities from the data-generator script:

mlr --opprint stats1 -a min,mean,max -f flag,u,v -g color \
  then sort -f color \
  data/colored-shapes.dkvp
color  flag_min flag_mean           flag_max u_min    u_mean              u_max    v_min     v_mean              v_max
blue   0        0.5843537414965987  1        0.000044 0.5177171537414964  0.999969 0.001489  0.4910564278911574  0.999576
green  0        0.20919747520288548 1        0.000488 0.5048610595130744  0.999936 0.000501  0.49908475924256035 0.999676
orange 0        0.5214521452145214  1        0.001235 0.49053241584158375 0.998885 0.002449  0.4877637788778878  0.998475
purple 0        0.09019264448336252 1        0.000266 0.49400496322241666 0.999647 0.000364  0.4970507127845888  0.999975
red    0        0.3031674208144796  1        0.000671 0.49255964641241273 0.999882 -0.092709 0.4965350941607402  1.0725
yellow 0        0.8924274593064402  1        0.0013   0.4971291160651098  0.999923 0.000711  0.5106265987261144  0.999919
mlr --opprint stats1 -a min,mean,max -f flag,u,v -g shape \
  then sort -f shape \
  data/colored-shapes.dkvp
shape    flag_min flag_mean           flag_max u_min    u_mean              u_max    v_min     v_mean              v_max
circle   0        0.3998456194519491  1        0.000044 0.498554505982246   0.999923 -0.092709 0.49552416171362396 1.0725
square   0        0.39611178614823817 1        0.000188 0.4993854558930749  0.999969 0.000089  0.49653825929526124 0.999975
triangle 0        0.4015421115065243  1        0.000881 0.49685854240806604 0.999661 0.000717  0.5010495260972719  0.999995

Look at bivariate stats by color and shape. In particular, u,v pairwise correlation for red circles pops out:

mlr --opprint --right stats2 -a corr -f u,v,w,x data/colored-shapes.dkvp
          u_v_corr              w_x_corr
0.1334180491027861 -0.011319841199866178
mlr --opprint --right \
  stats2 -a corr -f u,v,w,x -g color,shape then sort -nr u_v_corr \
  data/colored-shapes.dkvp
 color    shape              u_v_corr               w_x_corr
   red   circle    0.9807984401887236   -0.01856553658708754
orange   square   0.17685855992752927   -0.07104431573806054
 green   circle   0.05764419437577255    0.01179572988801509
   red   square   0.05574477124893523 -0.0006801456507510942
yellow triangle   0.04457273771962798   0.024604310103081825
yellow   square   0.04379172927296089   -0.04462197201631237
purple   circle   0.03587354936895086     0.1341133954140899
  blue   square   0.03241153095761164  -0.053507648119643196
  blue triangle  0.015356427073158766 -0.0006089997461435399
orange   circle  0.010518953877704048   -0.16279397329279383
   red triangle   0.00809782571528034   0.012486621357942596
purple triangle  0.005155190909099334  -0.045057909256220656
purple   square -0.025680276963377404    0.05769429647930396
 green   square   -0.0257760734502851  -0.003265173252087127
orange triangle -0.030456661186085785    -0.1318699981926352
yellow   circle  -0.06477331572781474    0.07369449819706045
  blue   circle  -0.10234761901929677  -0.030528539069837757
 green triangle  -0.10901825107358765   -0.04848782060162929
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