Argument Types

Rasgo transforms use type within the arguments specification in each transform's YAML configuration file to trigger a user-friendly input in the UI.

Here's a master list of the argument types that Rasgo supports:

argument type	description	values
agg	Aggregation method	[SUM, MIN, MAX, COUNT, MODE, AVG, MEDIAN]
agg_dict	A dictionary where one or more aggregations are provided for each column selected
boolean	A binary value	[TRUE, FALSE]
cast_value_dict	A dict where the keys are columns and the values are the new type to cast them to
column	A single column selector
column_list	A selector for multiple columns
column_value_dict	Dictionary where a string value is provided for each column selected
conditional_list	A nested list. In each inner list the first element would be the condition to check, and the second the value with which to fill
custom	The custom SQL transform template to apply
date_part	a date part of a datetime value	[DAY, HOUR, MINUTE, WEEK, MONTH, YEAR, QUARTER]
datepart_dict	dict where the keys are names of column(s) you want to datetrunc and the values are the desired date grain
imputation_dict	Dictionary with keys as column names to impute missing values for, and dictionary values the type of imputation stratgey ('mean', 'median', 'mode', )
int	A integer
int_list	A list of integers
join_dict	Columns to use for the join. Keys are columns in the source_table and values are on columns in the join_table
join_type	Type of Join to use	[LEFT, RIGHT, or INNER]
math_list	List of math operations to generate new columns. For example, ["AGE_COLUMN + 5", "WEIGHT_COLUMN / 100"]
mixed_list	a list of strings, numbers, or column names
mixed_value	a string, number, or column name
table	a Rasgo Dataset
table_list	A list of Rasgo Datasets
timestamp	timestamp string
string	A string
string_list	A list of strings
value	a string or number
value_list	a list of strings or numbers