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Add info about `experiments_column_type` to Jetstream Config data source docs #584

Open mikewilli opened 3 months ago

mikewilli commented 3 months ago

experiments_column_type is a field configured in metric-hub to tell jetstream/mozanalysis more info about how to build queries. It is a string field that has a few valid options -- the right option for the data source depends on the structure of the data.

Options as of writing (from here):

EXPERIMENT_COLUMN_TYPES = (None, "simple", "native", "glean")

For more context to whoever ends up writing this, here are the changes made to queries based on the value of this field:

mikewilli commented 3 months ago

Also, I think this info should go in this section.