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A Grammar of Data Analysis

Xunmo Yang
Taylor Pospisil
Omkar Muralidharan
Dennis Sun
arxiv (2025)
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Abstract

This paper outlines a grammar of data analysis, as distinct from grammars of data manipulation. The primitives of this grammar are metrics and dimensions. We describe a Python implementation of this grammar called Meterstick, which is agnostic to the underlying data source, which may be a DataFrame or a SQL database.
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