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NCEAS / metadig-checks

MetaDIG suites and checks for data and metadata improvement and guidance.

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Show a glimpse of a file #444

Open jeanetteclark opened 8 months ago

jeanetteclark commented 8 months ago

Status: ✍️ Drafted

Description

For a data file, develop an informational check that returns a glimpse like check with formatted output to display on report.

Priority

Data Quality: Informational

Issues

Need to figure out how this would display on metacatUI. We could use the view that renders a markdown table
Also need to decide on how many files to display

Procedure

Use pandas describe and to_markdown methods to summarize a data frame and render to markdown