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Fieldwork is a Python library for exploring one dataframe at a time and checking how two tables connect through a key. This site describes Fieldwork 0.3.2, with tested examples and generated visual evidence.

  • Getting started: install and build a first census.
  • Guides: discover families, inspect exceptions, refine populations and save work.
  • Concepts: availability, entity grain, denominators and path ranking.
  • Reference: individual function pages with complete arguments, worked synthetic-data investigations, real output, and downloadable examples.
  • Contributing: development, generated images and release synchronization.

The package repository’s developer documentation explains architecture and internal evidence contracts. These pages focus on what you can do with your data.

For a tour of one tool at a time, start with fw.explore, then follow the questions that interest you through the function catalog. The examples span public services, ecology, warehouses, and other domains.