lace.Codebook

class lace.Codebook(codebook: Codebook)

Stores metadata about the lace Engine.

The codebook stores information about the CRP priors on columns-to-views (state_crp_alpha) and rows-to-categories (view_crp_alpha), the row names, and how to model each column including the type, the prior, and the hyper prior.

codebook

A reference to the underlying rust data structure

Type:

core.Codebook

__init__(codebook: Codebook)

Properties

column_metadata	Get/set a column metadata.
column_names	Contains the name of each column.
row_names	Contains the name of each row.
shape	A (n_rows, n_cols) tuple.
codebook

Methods

append_column_metadata(col_metadata)	Append new columns to the codebook.
empty(name)	Create an empty codebook with a given name.
from_df(name, df[, cat_cutoff, no_hypers])	Infer a codebook from a DataFrame.
json()	Return the codebook as a JSON string.
rename(name)	Return a copy of the codebook with a new name.
set_row_names(row_names)	Return a copy of the codebook with new row_names.
set_state_prior_process(prior_process)	Return a copy of the codebook with a new state PriorProcess.
set_view_prior_process(prior_process)	Return a copy of the codebook with a new view PriorProcess.
value_map(col)	Get the value map for a Categorical column if it exists.