Life & fun · November 17, 2022
Cartwright – Automating detection of geographic and temporal features
Cartwright is a data profiler that identifies and categorizes spatial and temporal features. Cartwright uses deep learning, natural language processing, and a variety of heuristics to determine whether a column in a dataset contains spatial or temporal information and, if so, what is specifically contained. Cartwright was built to automate complex data pipelines for heterogenous climate and geopolitical data that are generally oriented around geospatial and temporal features (think maps and time series). The challenge that Cartwright solves is automatically detecting those features so they…
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Cartwright is a data profiler that automatically detects and categorizes spatial and temporal features in datasets using deep learning, natural language processing, and heuristics. Built for researchers working with climate and geopolitical data, it identifies whether columns contain geographic or time-based information and determines their specific content. The tool simplifies the complex process of parsing and normalizing heterogeneous datasets organized around maps and time series.
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Cartwright is a data profiler that identifies and categorizes spatial and temporal features. Cartwright uses deep learning, natural language processing, and a variety of heuristics to determine whether a column in a dataset contains spatial or temporal information and, if so, what is specifically contained. Cartwright was built to automate complex data pipelines for heterogenous climate and geopolitical data that are generally oriented around geospatial and temporal features (think maps and time series). The challenge that Cartwright solves is automatically detecting those features so they can be parsed and normalized. This problem turns out to be quite tricky, but Cartwright makes it simple.
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