Metadata-Version: 2.0
Name: recordinality
Version: 0.0.3
Summary: A Python implementation of the Recordinality sketch
Home-page: https://github.com/zacharyvoase/recordinality
Author: Zachary Voase
Author-email: zack@meat.io
License: Unlicense
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: Public Domain
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
Requires-Dist: csiphash (>=0.0.5)
Requires-Dist: cskipdict (>=0.0.3)
Provides-Extra: test
Requires-Dist: coverage; extra == 'test'

Recordinality.py
================

A Python implementation of the
`Recordinality <http://www-apr.lip6.fr/%7Elumbroso/Publications/HeLuMaVi12.pdf>`__
sketch for cardinality estimation and stream sampling. Inspired by C.
Scott Andreas's
`implementation <https://github.com/cscotta/recordinality>`__, but
powered by SipHash-2-4 rather than MurmurHash3. In particular, this
project uses two other libraries of mine:
`csiphash <https://github.com/zacharyvoase/python-csiphash>`__ and
`cskipdict <https://github.com/zacharyvoase/python-cskipdict>`__.

Installation
------------

::

    pip install recordinality

Usage
-----

You can use the command-line application, which will read lines of text
incrementally from stdin, printing the stream's cardinality (or a random
sample) once the pipe is closed:

::

    $ recordinality -k <sketch-size> [-h|--hash-key <hash-key>] [-s|--sample] < input-lines.txt
    3574
    $ cat input-lines.txt | sort -u | wc -l
    3556

SipHash allows the specification of a 'secret key' (used here as more of
a hash seed); if provided it should be either a 16-char ASCII string or
32-char hexadecimal string.

You can also import the ``Recordinality`` class in Python:

.. code:: python

    >>> from recordinality import Recordinality
    >>> sketch = Recordinality(size=512)
    >>> for observation in input_observations:
    ...     sketch.add(observation)
    >>> print(sketch.cardinality())
    3574
    >>> print(sketch.k_sample)
    ['strife', 'bragging', 'knight?', ...]

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---------

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