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convo is an R package for managing controlled vocabularies which can be used to inject meaning into variable and file names and form performance contracts between data producers and consumers.
Features include:
- Specifying a controlled vocabulary in R or YAML
- Checking controlled vocabulary quality
- Evaluating variables against a vocabulary
- Validating data based on promises implied by the controlled vocabulary (powered by
pointblank) - Documenting vocabulary and variable-level metadata
Please see package website for more details.
Emily Riederer
Senior Analytics Manager
Posts
Introducing the {convo} package
An R package for maintaining controlled vocabularies to encode contracts between data producers and consumers
Talks
Column Names as Contracts
Exploring the benefits of using controlled vocabularies to encode metadata in column names, and demonstrations of implementing this approach with the
convo R package or dbt extensions of SQL.
