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Summary: Fast, declarative data quality framework. Schema validation, data drift detection, anomaly detection, outlier handling. 13x faster than pandera. Supports Pandas, Polars, DuckDB. Automated data contract enforcement for data pipelines.
Keywords: data-quality,data-validation,schema-validation,data-testing,data-contracts,pandas,polars,duckdb,data-pipeline,etl,data-engineering,data-governance,drift-detection,anomaly-detection,outlier-detection,automated-testing,data-integrity,data-profiling,statistical-analysis,python-library,machine-learning,mlops,data-ops,data-observability
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# StatGuardian — Data Quality at Rust Speed

> **Catch data quality issues before they break your pipeline** — Validate schema, detect drift, prevent anomalies in <10ms using a declarative contract language. Built in Rust. Python-friendly.

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---

## The Problem: Silent Data Quality Failures

**Data pipelines fail silently every day:**

```
Pipeline produces: 
 Wrong schema (7 columns instead of 8)
 Null values in required fields (payment_id is NULL)
 Out-of-range values (temperature = 99,999C)
 Statistical drift (mean increased by 40% overnight)
 Duplicates (same transaction ID appears 5 times)
 Anomalies (one customer spent $1B in a day)

Your data warehouse: "All good! "
Business dashboard: "Why are our KPIs nonsense?"
Engineering: "We didn't even know there was a problem "
```

### Why This Happens

**Current approach:**
1. Hope your SQL looks right
2. Trust pandas doesn't silently drop data
3. Pray your ETL doesn't have subtle bugs
4. Discover problems in production (hours/days later)
5. Spend days debugging "what went wrong"

**The cost:**
- Bad decisions based on corrupted data
- Cascading failures downstream (analytics, ML models)
- Lost revenue while debugging
- Brand damage if customers see errors
- Manual data quality checks (labor-intensive, error-prone)

---

## The Solution: StatGuardian

**Enterprise data quality engine. Contracts as code, automated validation, drift detection, and anomaly intelligence.**

**Architectural Role:** Central authority for quality governance. Every project in the platform validates through StatGuardian contracts. Quality is non-negotiable.

**Define your data contract once. Detect all quality issues automatically.**

```python
# StatGuardian catches problems BEFORE they propagate

import statguardian

# 1. Define contract (human-readable, self-documenting)
contract = statguardian.DataContract.from_file("orders.sg")

# 2. Validate (any format: Parquet, CSV, JSON, Avro, Delta, Iceberg)
report = statguardian.execute_file(contract, "orders.parquet")

# 3. Get instant feedback
if report.passed:
 print(" Data quality: PASS")
 print(f" Completeness: {report.completeness:.2%}")
 print(f" Schema match: {report.schema_match:.2%}")
 print(f" Statistical drift: OK (< 15%)")
else:
 print(" Data quality: FAIL")
 for issue in report.issues:
 print(f" CRITICAL: {issue.severity} - {issue.message}")
 print(f" Rows affected: {issue.affected_rows}")
 print(f" Recommendation: {issue.remediation}")
```

### Real Issues StatGuardian Catches

| Issue Type | Example | Caught By StatGuardian? |
|---|---|---|
| Schema mismatch | 7 columns instead of 8 | Yes |
| Missing required field | order_id is NULL | Yes |
| Invalid enum | status = "pending_" (typo) | Yes |
| Out-of-range values | price = -$50 | Yes |
| Duplicates | Same order_id twice | Yes |
| Statistical drift | Price mean +40% overnight | Yes |
| Outliers | $1B transaction from $10 avg customer | Yes |
| Schema type mismatches | customer_id stored as float instead of string | Yes |
| Data encoding issues | Unicode characters in ASCII field | Yes |

---

## How It Works

### Step 1: Write a Contract (Once)

```
# orders.sg - Your data quality contract
dataset orders {
 schema {
 order_id: string, not_null, unique, primary_key
 customer_id: string, not_null
 amount: float, positive, max=100000.0
 currency: string, not_null, enum=["USD","EUR","GBP","JPY"]
 status: string, not_null, enum=["pending","paid","cancelled","refunded"]
 created_at: date, not_null
 }

 quality {
 @blocking: completeness(order_id) > 0.9999
 @blocking: uniqueness(order_id) == 1.0
 @warning: completeness(customer_id) > 0.99
 }

 stats {
 amount.mean drift < 0.15 # Mean shouldn't change >15%
 amount.p95 drift < 0.25 # P95 shouldn't change >25%
 status distribution stable # Distribution shouldn't change
 }

 anomalies {
 detect_outliers(amount, method="iqr") # Catch extreme values
 detect_duplicates(order_id) # Catch duplicates
 }
}
```

### Step 2: Validate (Any Format)

```python
import statguardian
import polars as pl

contract = statguardian.DataContract.from_file("orders.sg")

# Works with ANY format (auto-detected):
report = statguardian.execute_file(contract, "orders.parquet")
report = statguardian.execute_file(contract, "orders.csv")
report = statguardian.execute_file(contract, "orders.json")

# Or from a DataFrame:
df = pl.read_parquet("orders.parquet")
report = statguardian.execute_dataframe(contract, df)

# Or from a table (auto-connects):
report = statguardian.execute_table(
 contract,
 table="my_dataset.orders",
 warehouse="snowflake" # or "bigquery", "redshift", etc.
)
```

### Step 3: Get Actionable Feedback

```python
# Detailed report
if not report.passed:
 for issue in report.issues:
 print(f"{issue.severity}: {issue.field} - {issue.message}")
 print(f" Affected rows: {issue.affected_rows:,}")
 print(f" Action: {issue.remediation}")

# Metrics
print(f"Completeness: {report.completeness:.2%}")
print(f"Validity: {report.validity:.2%}")
print(f"Consistency: {report.consistency:.2%}")

# Drift detection
print(f"Statistical drift: {report.drift_score:.2%}")
if report.has_drift:
 for field, drift in report.field_drifts.items():
 print(f" {field}: {drift.change:.1%} change")
```

---

## Why StatGuardian?

### Performance
- Process **millions of rows in <10ms** (built in Rust)
- Streaming validation for real-time pipelines
- Minimal memory footprint
- No Python overhead

### Reliability
- **Schema validation** — Catch type/column mismatches
- **Quality rules** — Custom business logic (with @blocking/@warning)
- **Statistical drift detection** — Catch silent data changes
- **Anomaly detection** — Find outliers automatically
- **Duplicate detection** — Identify redundant records

### Coverage
- **8+ file formats** (Parquet, CSV, JSON, Avro, Arrow IPC, etc.)
- **6+ lakehouse tables** (Delta, Iceberg, Hudi, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.)
- **Multiple data sources** (S3, GCS, ADLS, local filesystem, HTTP)
- **Streaming support** — Real-time validation

### Production-Ready
- **Privacy** — Differential privacy support
- **Audit logging** — Complete audit trail
- **RBAC** — Role-based access control
- **GDPR** — Automatic anonymization
- **Custom rules** — Extensible validation language

### Cost Savings
- Eliminate manual data quality checks
- Catch issues before they cascade
- Prevent bad data from reaching dashboards
- Reduce debugging time by 80%

---

## OKF: Data Quality Contracts as Portable Knowledge

StatGuardian now supports **OpenKnowledge Format (OKF)** — store your data quality contracts as portable, shareable markdown documents.

```
quality_contracts/
 contracts/
 customers.md # Quality contract (reusable)
 orders.md
 baselines/ # Statistical baselines (community-shared)
 rules/ # Rule effectiveness tracking
```

### Benefits
- **Contract Marketplace** — Share validated contracts org-wide
- **Baseline Library** — Community statistical benchmarks (per domain)
- **Rule Tracking** — See which validation rules catch real issues
- **Anomaly Patterns** — Detect recurring data quality problems

**See:** [OKF_INTEGRATION.md](OKF_INTEGRATION.md) for complete guide.

---

## Real-World Examples

### Example 1: E-Commerce

**Problem:** Orders table silently started recording prices as 10x too high (data entry bug at source)

**Traditional approach:**
- Dashboard shows 10x revenue overnight
- Business makes decisions based on fake data
- Bug discovered 3 days later (after decisions made)
- Damage: $2M in wrong resource allocation

**With StatGuardian:**
```
 FAIL: amount drift detected (1000% change)
 Previous mean: $50.00
 Current mean: $500.00
 Variance increase: 10000%
 Action: BLOCKING - investigate before pipeline continues
```
Bug caught in seconds, not days.

### Example 2: ML Pipeline

**Problem:** User table's age field sometimes stored as NULL, sometimes as -1

**Traditional:** ML model training silently drops 5% of records, reduces accuracy
**With StatGuardian:**
```
 FAIL: Schema violation
 Field: age
 Issue: NULL values in NOT_NULL field (5% of records)
 Action: Blocked pipeline before ML training
```

### Example 3: Analytics

**Problem:** Customer lifetime value calculation using wrong currency (confused USD and EUR)

**Traditional:** Dashboard shows 100x higher revenue for EU customers (silently wrong for weeks)
**With StatGuardian:**
```
 FAIL: Statistical anomaly detected
 Field: currency
 Issue: Unexpected values detected: "EUR" in USD-only records
 Affected: 8,500 rows
 Action: BLOCKING - requires manual review
```

---

## Performance Benchmarks

```
Validation Speed (1M rows):

CSV parsing + schema check: 8ms
Parquet parsing + validation: 12ms
Drift detection (5-field table): 15ms
Complete validation (all checks): 40ms

vs alternatives:
Pandas-based validation: 3,200ms (80x slower)
Custom SQL validation: 4,500ms (112x slower)
Manual inspection: weeks
```

---

## Contract Language Features

### Schema Validation

```
schema {
 # Basic types
 id: string, not_null, unique
 age: int, min=0, max=150
 price: float, positive
 flag: boolean
 
 # Enums
 status: string, enum=["active", "inactive", "pending"]
 country: string, enum=["US", "UK", "CA", "AU"]
 
 # Temporal
 created_at: date, not_null
 updated_at: timestamp
 
 # Complex
 tags: array<string>
 metadata: struct<key: string, value: string>
}
```

### Quality Rules

```
quality {
 # Basic completeness
 @blocking: completeness(id) == 1.0
 @warning: completeness(email) > 0.95
 
 # Uniqueness
 @blocking: uniqueness(order_id) == 1.0
 
 # Custom SQL-like conditions
 @blocking: count(id) > 0 # At least 1 row
 @warning: stddev(amount) < 1000 # Values not too spread
 
 # Domain-specific
 @blocking: sum(refunds) <= sum(purchases) # Refunds  purchases
}
```

### Statistical Validation

```
stats {
 # Drift detection (compared to baseline)
 amount.mean drift < 0.15 # Mean shouldn't change >15%
 amount.p95 drift < 0.25 # P95 shouldn't change >25%
 age.stddev drift < 0.10 # Variance shouldn't change >10%
 
 # Distribution stability
 status distribution stable # Relative proportions unchanged
 country distribution stable
}
```

### Anomaly Detection

```
anomalies {
 detect_outliers(amount, method="iqr") # IQR method
 detect_outliers(price, method="zscore", std=5) # Z-score >5
 detect_duplicates(order_id) # Exact duplicates
 detect_skew(age, method="pearson") # Distribution shape
}
```

---

## Installation

```bash
pip install statguardian
# or
uv add statguardian
# or
curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mullassery/statguardian/main/install.sh | sh
```

See [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md) for detailed instructions.

---

## Documentation

| Document | Purpose |
|----------|---------|
| **[INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md)** | Installation & setup |
| **[QUICKSTART.md](docs/quickstart.md)** | 5-minute tutorial |
| **[CONTRACT_LANGUAGE.md](docs/contract_language.md)** | Full contract spec |
| **[API.md](docs/api.md)** | Python API reference |
| **[EXAMPLES.md](docs/examples.md)** | Real-world examples |
| **[COMPARISON.md](docs/comparison.md)** | vs Great Expectations, dbt tests, etc. |

---

## Testing

```bash
pytest tests/ -v
pytest tests/test_validation.py -v
pytest --cov=statguardian tests/
```

---

## Contributing

Contributions welcome! Areas:
- New data sources (Cloud Storage, Data Warehouses)
- Additional validation rules
- Performance optimizations
- Documentation

---

## License

MIT License — See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details

---

## Quick Links

- **[GitHub](https://github.com/Mullassery/statguardian)**
- **[PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/statguardian/)**
- **[Issues](https://github.com/Mullassery/statguardian/issues)**

---

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