Use this guide to write a description for a single data table that represents sequential data, for example, a timeseries. In sequential data, rows have a specific order. Your data table may contain multiple, independent sequences belonging to different entities. See the diagram below for an illustration of sequential data.
Your data description is called metadata. SDMetrics expects metadata as a Python dictionary object.
Click to see the sequential table's metadata
This is the metadata dictionary for the illustrated sequential table
Inside "columns", you will describe each column. You'll start with the name of the column. Then you'll specify the type of data and any other information about it.
There are specific data types to choose from. Expand the options below to learn about the data types.
computer_representation: A string that represents how you'll ultimately store the data. This determines the min and max values allowed
Available options are: 'Float', 'Int8', 'Int16', 'Int32', 'Int64', 'UInt8', 'UInt16', 'UInt32', 'UInt64'
ID columns represent identifiers that do not have any special mathematical or semantic meaning