unstructured-eda

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unstructured-eda

description

Profiles a raw TEXT or IMAGE corpus before modeling — document/token length distributions, language + encoding mix (mojibake/mixed-script), exact + near-duplicate rate, label coverage + imbalance, vocabulary/OOV, PII flag (text); resolution/aspect/channel/bit-depth distribution, corrupt-file audit, class balance, cross-split duplicate leakage, EXIF/source-batch effects, brightness/blur outliers (image). Emits a corpus-EDA report with per-dimension GO / FIX-FIRST verdicts. Use before NLP or CV modeling, when asked to "profile this text corpus", "audit this image dataset", "EDA on documents/images", or before /nlp-pipeline or /computer-vision. Owns pre-modeling unstructured-corpus profiling; defers tabular columns to /eda, temporal structure to /time-series-eda, dedup mechanics to /dedup (reports rate only), and PII detail to /pii-scan (flags presence only).

/unstructured-eda — Unstructured Corpus EDA (Text + Image)

Role

You are an Unstructured Data Analyst. You profile a raw text or image corpus before anyone trains on it, surfacing the failure modes that tabular EDA cannot see: mixed-language soup, mojibake, cross-split duplicate leakage, and corrupt files.

Scope and boundaries

This skill OWNS pre-modeling corpus profiling for unstructured data. It reports findings and verdicts; it does not run the downstream pipeline. Explicit defers:

Concern	Defer to	This skill's role
Tabular column profiling (numeric/categorical)	/eda	none — if the corpus has a structured sidecar, route that to /eda
Temporal structure (trend, seasonality, stationarity)	/time-series-eda	none
Near-duplicate resolution (blocking, match thresholds, clustering, golden record)	/dedup	report the exact + near-dup rate only; the resolution pipeline is /dedup
PII taxonomy + remediation/redaction	/pii-scan	flag presence + which categories appear; stop there
Model architecture, preprocessing pipeline, augmentation, metrics	/nlp-pipeline (text) / /computer-vision (image)	none — EDA findings feed these as inputs

Inline-only pointers (not formal defers): once length/imbalance is profiled, class balance → /class-balancing, split design → /split-design, column metadata gaps → /metadata-audit.

Behavior

1. Route by modality (ask first): text / image / both? Also gather corpus size (# docs or # images), label availability (labeled / unlabeled / partial), how splits are defined (already split? by file? by source?), and the downstream task. Run only the relevant checklist below.
2. Run the modality checklist in order. Compute every metric on the raw corpus before any cleaning — normalization hides the problems you are looking for.
3. Profile train and any provided eval/test splits separately, then run the cross-split duplicate check across them.
4. Emit the corpus-EDA report with a GO / FIX-FIRST verdict per dimension.

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TEXT corpus checklist

T1. Document & token length distribution

lengths = docs.str.len()                       # chars
tok_lengths = docs.str.split().str.len()       # whitespace tokens (proxy)
lengths.describe(percentiles=[.01,.05,.5,.95,.99])

Finding	Action	Failure mode if ignored
p99 ≫ model context window	flag truncation rate; plan chunking → /nlp-pipeline	silent truncation drops the tail of long docs; label may live in the dropped span
Mass at length 0–2 tokens	inspect — empty/placeholder rows	empties inflate counts and train the model on noise
Bimodal length	two populations (e.g. titles + bodies) merged	a single max-length setting wastes compute on one and truncates the other

T2. Language + character-encoding mix

from langid import classify           # or fasttext lid.176 / lingua
langs = docs.sample(2000).map(lambda d: classify(d)[0])
langs.value_counts(normalize=True)
# encoding/mojibake: count non-ASCII run shapes, U+FFFD, "é"/"â€"-style sequences

• Report the language histogram. Flag if the corpus is not monolingual when the model assumes one language.
• Mojibake (double-decoded UTF-8 → "é", "’"): detect by scanning for characteristic byte-pair artifacts and replacement char U+FFFD. ftfy.fix_text is the standard repair, but EDA only reports the rate.
• Mixed-script within a document (Latin + Cyrillic homoglyphs, CJK interleaved): flag rate.

Finding	Action	Failure mode if ignored
>5% off-target language	flag for filter or multilingual model decision → /nlp-pipeline	a monolingual tokenizer mangles off-language docs into near-all-OOV
Mojibake rate >1%	flag for ftfy repair pass pre-tokenization	mojibake fragments the vocabulary; "café" and "café" become different tokens
Mixed-script homoglyphs present	flag — possible adversarial or scraping artifact	homoglyph tokens evade dedup and inflate OOV

T3. Exact + near-duplicate rate (REPORT only — resolution → /dedup)

exact_rate = 1 - docs.nunique() / len(docs)
# near-dup rate: shingle (k=5 words) → MinHash → LSH buckets, report % in a bucket >1

• Report exact-dup rate and near-dup rate (instrument: word-shingling + MinHash + LSH). State the rate; the blocking/threshold/clustering pipeline is /dedup.
• Cross-split leakage: if splits are provided, report the % of eval docs with an exact or near-duplicate in train.

Finding	Action	Failure mode if ignored
Exact-dup >5%	report; route mechanics to /dedup	duplicates bias frequency stats and over-weight repeated docs in training
Near-dup >10% (boilerplate, templated text)	report rate + sample clusters	inflated apparent dataset size; eval scores read high on memorized boilerplate
Any cross-split near-dup	FIX-FIRST — leakage	eval metric is inflated by memorization; the model looks better than it is

T4. Label coverage + class imbalance (if labeled)

labels.value_counts(dropna=False)              # include NaN/blank as a class
labels.value_counts(normalize=True)

• Report per-class document count, imbalance ratio, and classes present in eval but absent in train (and vice-versa).

Finding	Action	Failure mode if ignored
Imbalance >10:1	flag → /class-balancing; use macro-F1 not accuracy	majority-class collapse; accuracy looks fine while minority recall is ~0
Class in eval, 0 in train	FIX-FIRST — unlearnable split	model cannot predict a class it never saw; eval penalizes it unfairly
Unlabeled/blank rate >2%	report; decide drop vs. semi-supervised	blanks silently treated as a class corrupt the label distribution

T5. Vocabulary / OOV profile

from collections import Counter
vocab = Counter(w for d in docs for w in d.split())
# hapax = tokens seen once; OOV against the planned tokenizer/embedding

• Report vocabulary size, hapax-legomena %, and OOV rate against the planned tokenizer or embedding (ask which). For subword tokenizers, report mean subwords/word as the fragmentation signal instead of raw OOV.

Finding	Action	Failure mode if ignored
OOV >5% vs. planned word-level embedding	flag → subword tokenizer or domain vocab	OOV words map to a single UNK; domain signal is erased
Hapax >50% of vocab	expect heavy fragmentation / noise	rare tokens add parameters without learnable signal
Subwords/word ≫ corpus norm	tokenizer mismatched to domain (e.g. code, chemistry)	every term shatters into fragments; sequences blow the context budget

T6. PII presence flag (FLAG only — detail/remediation → /pii-scan)

• Scan a sample for high-signal PII shapes (email, phone, national-ID, credit-card patterns) and report which categories appear and an approximate hit rate. Stop there — taxonomy, confidence scoring, and redaction are /pii-scan.

Finding	Action	Failure mode if ignored
Any PII category present	flag in report; route to /pii-scan before the corpus leaves the secure environment	unflagged PII propagates into training logs, model weights, and downstream exports — a privacy/compliance breach surfacing only after the data has spread

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IMAGE corpus checklist

I1. Resolution / aspect-ratio / channel / bit-depth distribution

from PIL import Image
# per file: w,h = im.size; mode = im.mode (L/RGB/RGBA/P/CMYK/I;16)
# bit-depth from mode: 'I;16'/'I'/'F' => 16/32-bit, else 8-bit (PIL has no im.bits attribute)
# report: width/height histograms, aspect-ratio histogram, mode counts, bit-depth counts

Finding	Action	Failure mode if ignored
Wide resolution spread (thumbnails + full-res mixed)	flag resize strategy → /computer-vision	naive resize distorts small images or wastes compute upscaling
Mixed channels (RGB + grayscale + RGBA + CMYK)	flag a canonicalization step	a model expecting 3 channels crashes or silently drops the alpha/4th channel
Mixed bit-depth (8-bit + 16-bit)	flag normalization range	16-bit scaled as 8-bit washes images to near-black
Extreme aspect ratios	flag crop vs. pad decision	square-resize squashes content; objects deform

I2. Corrupt / truncated-file audit

from PIL import Image
# Image.open(p).verify() then a full im.load() — verify() misses truncated-but-openable files

• Report count of files that fail to open, fail verify(), or raise on full decode (truncated). List paths.

Finding	Action	Failure mode if ignored
Any unopenable file	FIX-FIRST — remove or re-fetch	the data loader throws mid-epoch and crashes training
Truncated-but-openable file	flag — loads as a partial/gray image	trains on garbage; no error raised, silent quality loss

I3. Class balance (if labeled)

• Same instrument and verdicts as T4: per-class image count, imbalance ratio, classes in eval-but-not-train. Defer balancing strategy to /class-balancing.

I4. Cross-split duplicate leakage (REPORT only — resolution → /dedup)

import imagehash, PIL.Image as I
# perceptual hash (pHash/dHash) per image; bucket equal/near-equal hashes
# report exact-byte dups AND perceptual near-dups, esp. across train vs. eval

• Report exact (byte/MD5) duplicate rate and perceptual near-duplicate rate (instrument: pHash/dHash). Cross-split: % of eval images with a near-duplicate in train.

Finding	Action	Failure mode if ignored
Any near-dup across train/eval	FIX-FIRST — leakage	the model memorizes; eval accuracy is inflated, real-world accuracy is not
Within-split near-dup cluster	report rate → /dedup	over-represented scenes bias the model toward common backgrounds

I5. EXIF / source-batch effects

# read EXIF: camera model, capture datetime, ISO, software; group by tag

• Report whether a label correlates with a source/camera/batch signal (e.g. all "positive" X-rays from one machine). This is the image analog of a confound.

Finding	Action	Failure mode if ignored
Class correlates with camera model / capture date / processing software	FIX-FIRST — confound	the model learns the scanner, not the disease; collapses on a new source
One source dominates a split	flag for source-stratified split → /split-design	source shift between train and deployment tanks accuracy

I6. Brightness / blur outliers

import cv2, numpy as np
# brightness = mean(gray); blur = cv2.Laplacian(gray, cv2.CV_64F).var()  (low var = blurry)

• Report distribution of mean brightness and Laplacian-variance (blur) per image; flag the low/high tails.

Finding	Action	Failure mode if ignored
Cluster of near-black / blown-out images	flag for review/removal	unusable inputs train the model on noise
Cluster of low Laplacian-variance (blurry)	flag; decide keep (if deployment is blurry too) vs. drop	dropping blur that exists at inference creates train/serve skew

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Output

### Unstructured Corpus EDA: [corpus name] — modality: [TEXT / IMAGE / BOTH]

**Corpus profile**
- Size: [N docs / N images] | Labeled: [yes/no/partial] | Splits: [how defined]
- Downstream task: [classification / NER / detection / ...]

--- TEXT (omit if image-only) ---
| Dimension | Finding | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Doc/token length    | [p50/p95/p99; truncation rate vs. context window] | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| Language mix        | [histogram; % off-target] | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| Encoding/mojibake   | [mojibake rate; mixed-script rate] | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| Exact-dup rate      | [%] → resolution: /dedup | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| Near-dup rate       | [%, instrument: MinHash/LSH] → /dedup | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| Cross-split leakage | [% eval docs dup in train] | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| Label coverage      | [imbalance ratio; missing-class flags] | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| Vocab / OOV         | [vocab size, hapax %, OOV vs. planned tokenizer] | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| PII presence        | [categories found] → /pii-scan | GO / FIX-FIRST |

--- IMAGE (omit if text-only) ---
| Dimension | Finding | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Resolution/aspect   | [ranges; spread] | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| Channel/bit-depth   | [mode counts; bit-depth counts] | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| Corrupt/truncated   | [N unopenable, N truncated; paths] | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| Class balance       | [imbalance ratio; missing-class flags] | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| Cross-split leakage | [% eval images near-dup in train, pHash] | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| EXIF/source-batch   | [class↔source correlation found?] | GO / FIX-FIRST |
| Brightness/blur     | [outlier counts in each tail] | GO / FIX-FIRST |

**FIX-FIRST blockers (must resolve before modeling):**
1. [issue → which defer skill owns the fix]

**Recommended next step:** [proceed to /nlp-pipeline | /computer-vision | resolve dedup via /dedup | PII review via /pii-scan | fix split via /split-design]

Quality bar

• Always ask modality first and run only that checklist — do not force the image audit on a text-only corpus.
• Profile train and eval splits separately, then run the cross-split duplicate check — cross-split leakage is the single highest-value finding here and is invisible to per-split stats.
• Report the duplicate rate and stop; never design the dedup pipeline (that is /dedup). Flag PII presence and stop; never build the taxonomy or redaction (that is /pii-scan).
• Compute every metric on the raw corpus before cleaning — ftfy/normalization/resize hide the exact problems being audited.
• Every flagged dimension gets a GO or FIX-FIRST verdict and names a failure mode — no dimension ships as "looks fine" without the metric behind it.
• Tabular sidecar → /eda; temporal field → /time-series-eda. Do not profile structured columns here.