Hamilton

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What is Hamilton?
It's a general purpose micro-framework for creating dataflows from python functions!
Specifically, Hamilton defines a novel paradigm, that allows you to specify a flow of (delayed) execution, that forms a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). It was original built to solve creating wide (1000+) column dataframes at Stitch Fix. Core to the design of Hamilton is a clear mapping of function name to dataflow output. That is, Hamilton forces a certain paradigm with writing functions, and aims for DAG clarity, easy modifications, with always unit testable and naturally documentable code!
For the backstory on how Hamilton came about, see our blog post!.
Hamilton's method of defining dataflows presents a new paradigm when it comes to creating, um, dataframes (let's use dataframes as an example, otherwise you can create ANY python object). Rather than thinking about manipulating a central dataframe procedurally, and extracting the data you want, as is normal in some data engineering/data science work, you instead think about the column(s) (a.k.a. outputs) you want to create, and what inputs are required. There is no need for you to think about maintaining how to create this dataframe, meaning you do not need to think about any "glue" code; this is all taken care of by the Hamilton framework. Specifically, Hamilton enables you to run your dataflow with the following steps:
1.Define your dataflow (a.k.a. pipeline), as a set of transforms using Hamilton's paradigm for writing python functions.
2.Specify the parameter values your dataflow requires
3.Specify which outputs you want to compute from your dataflow
The rest is delegated to the framework, which handles the computation for you.
Let's illustrate this with some code. If you were asked to write a simple transform (let's use pandas for the sake of argument), you may decide to write something simple like this:
df['col_c'] = df['col_a'] + df['col_b']
To represent this in a way Hamilton can understand, you write:
def col_c(col_a: pd.Series, col_b: pd.Series) -> pd.Series:
    """Creating column c from summing column a and column b."""
    return col_a + col_b
The above code represented as a diagram
The Hamilton framework takes the above code, forms it into a computational DAG, and executes it for you!
Hamilton Open Source Community
If you have questions, have ideas, or need help with Hamilton, join us on slack, and we'll try to help!
Installing Hamilton
Installation should be quick and as simple as:
> pip install sf-hamilton
For more information please see Installing. 
License
Hamilton is released under the BSD 3-Clause Clear License. If you need to get in touch about something, contact us at algorithms-opensource (at) stitchfix.com.
Contributing
We take contributions, large and small. We operate via a Code of Conduct and expect anyone contributing to do the same.
User Guide
Dive a little deeper and start exploring our API reference to get an idea of everything that's possible with the API:
API Reference

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