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# NOTE this notebook can be run manually or automatically by {targets}
# So load the packages required by this notebook here
# rather than relying on _targets.R to load them.

# Set up the project environment, because {workflowr} knits each Rmd file 
# in a new R session, and doesn't execute the project .Rprofile

library(targets) # access data from the targets cache

library(tictoc) # capture execution time
library(here) # construct file paths relative to project root
library(fs) # file system operations
library(vroom) # fast reading of delimited text files
library(tibble) # enhanced data frames
library(stringr) # string matching
library(skimr) # compact summary of each variable
library(lubridate) # date parsing

Attaching package: 'lubridate'
The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    date, intersect, setdiff, union
library(forcats) # manipulation of factors
library(ggplot2) # graphics

# start the execution time clock
tictoc::tic("Computation time (excl. render)")

# Get the path to the raw entity data file
# This is a target managed by {targets}
f_entity_raw_tsv <- tar_read(c_raw_entity_data_file)

1 Introduction

The aim of this set of meta notebooks is to work out how to read the raw entity data. and get it sufficiently neatened so that we can construct standardised names and modelling features without needing any further neatening. To be clear, the target (c_raw_entity_data) corresponding to the objective of this set of notebooks is the neatened raw data, before constructing any modelling features.

This notebook documents the checking of the “residential” variables for any issues that need fixing. These are the residential address and the phone number (which is tied to the address if the telephone is a land-line). The subsequent notebooks in this set will checking the other variables for any issues that need fixing.

Regardless of whether there are any issues that need to be fixed, the analyses here may inform our use of these variables in later analyses.

We have no intention of using the residence variables as predictors for entity resolution. However, they may be of use for manually checking the results of entity resolution. Consequently, the checking done here is minimal.

Define the residential variables:

  • unit_num - Residential address unit number
  • house_num - Residential address street number
  • half_code - Residential address street number half code
  • street_dir - Residential address street direction (N,S,E,W,NE,SW, etc.)
  • street_name - Residential address street name
  • street_type_cd - Residential address street type (RD, ST, DR, BLVD, etc.)
  • street_sufx_cd - Residential address street suffix (BUS, EXT, and directional)
  • res_city_desc - Residential address city name
  • state_cd - Residential address state code
  • zip_code - Residential address zip code
  • area_cd - Area code for phone number
  • phone_num - Telephone number
vars_resid <- c(
  "unit_num", "house_num",      
  "half_code", "street_dir", "street_name", "street_type_cd", "street_sufx_cd",
  "res_city_desc", "state_cd", "zip_code",
  "area_cd", "phone_num"
)

2 Read entity data

Read the raw entity data file using the previously defined functions raw_entity_data_read(), raw_entity_data_excl_status(), raw_entity_data_excl_test(), raw_entity_data_drop_novar(), raw_entity_data_parse_dates(), and raw_entity_data_drop_cancel_dt().

# Show the data file name
fs::path_file(f_entity_raw_tsv)
[1] "VR_20051125.txt.xz"
d <- raw_entity_data_read(f_entity_raw_tsv) %>% 
  raw_entity_data_excl_status() %>% 
  raw_entity_data_excl_test() %>% 
  raw_entity_data_drop_novar() %>% 
  raw_entity_data_parse_dates() %>% 
  raw_entity_data_drop_cancel_dt()
dim(d)
[1] 4099699      24

3 Dwelling

  • unit_num - Residential address unit number
  • house_num - Residential address street number
  • half_code - Residential address street number half code
d %>% 
  dplyr::select(unit_num, house_num, half_code) %>% 
  skimr::skim()
Table 3.1: Data summary
Name Piped data
Number of rows 4099699
Number of columns 3
_______________________
Column type frequency:
character 3
________________________
Group variables None

Variable type: character

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate min max empty n_unique whitespace
unit_num 3755239 0.08 1 7 0 16116 0
house_num 0 1.00 1 6 0 27534 0
half_code 4088996 0.00 1 1 0 41 0

We are mostly interested in how much these fields are used, so concentrate on complete_rate.

All these variables are character variables, so min and max refer to the minimum and maximum lengths of the values as character strings.

The number of unique values, n_unique, is also of interest.

  • unit_num
    • 8% filled
    • There are some awfully long unit numbers
    • There are an awful lot of unique unit numbers
  • house_num
    • 100% filled
    • There are some awfully long house numbers
    • There are an awful lot of unique house numbers
  • half_code 0.3% filled
    • All exactly 1 character long
    • There are more unique values than I would expect for a one character string

3.1 unit_num

Look at some examples grouped by length

d %>% 
  dplyr::select(unit_num) %>% 
  dplyr::filter(!is.na(unit_num)) %>% 
  dplyr::mutate(length = stringr::str_length(unit_num)) %>% 
  dplyr::group_by(length) %>% 
  dplyr::count(unit_num) %>% # count occurrences of each unique value
  dplyr::slice_max(order_by = n, n = 5) %>% 
  knitr::kable()
length unit_num n
1 A 28214
1 B 26535
1 C 14240
1 D 12452
1 E 7956
2 10 2090
2 11 1878
2 12 1844
2 14 1390
2 13 1378
3 102 2579
3 101 2499
3 103 2296
3 201 2205
3 104 2201
4 APTB 194
4 APTA 185
4 APTC 106
4 APT2 73
4 APT4 73
5 APT-A 813
5 APT-B 680
5 APT-C 165
5 APT-D 119
5 APT-1 109
6 APT-1B 30
6 APT-2B 24
6 APT-1A 22
6 APT-4A 20
6 APT-4B 19
7 APT 205 6
7 APT-204 6
7 CONOVER 6
7 APT-106 5
7 APT-203 5
7 APT-302 5
  • Longer values are due to inclusion of text, e.g. “APT-106”

3.2 house_num

Look at some examples grouped by length

d %>% 
  dplyr::select(house_num) %>% 
  dplyr::filter(!is.na(house_num)) %>% 
  dplyr::mutate(length = stringr::str_length(house_num)) %>% 
  dplyr::group_by(length) %>% 
  dplyr::count(house_num) %>% # count occurrences of each unique value
  dplyr::slice_max(order_by = n, n = 5) %>% 
  knitr::kable()
length house_num n
1 0 36335
1 1 8601
1 5 5488
1 6 5356
1 4 5143
2 10 5649
2 15 5332
2 11 4730
2 20 4243
2 12 4115
3 105 18195
3 104 17159
3 100 15605
3 102 15147
3 103 15070
4 1000 3826
4 1200 3674
4 1005 3238
4 1001 3158
4 1801 3064
5 10400 238
5 10000 230
5 30005 229
5 10001 188
5 10301 183
6 100000 9
6 100001 1
6 102099 1
6 103580 1
6 601708 1
  • I am mildly surprised by house number “0”. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone was using that as a misiing value flag.
  • Large numbers are plausible, because these are not uncommon in the USA.
  • Very large numbers are somewhat suspect.

3.3 half_code.

d %>% 
  dplyr::select(half_code) %>% 
  dplyr::filter(!is.na(half_code)) %>% 
  dplyr::count(half_code) %>% # count occurrences of each unique value
  dplyr::arrange(desc(n)) %>% 
  # knitr::kable() # strange multibyte character kills kable()
  print(n = Inf)
# A tibble: 41 x 2
   half_code     n
   <chr>     <int>
 1 "A"        3313
 2 "B"        2725
 3 "\xbd"     1730
 4 "C"         948
 5 "D"         569
 6 "E"         273
 7 "F"         214
 8 "H"         174
 9 "G"         154
10 "J"          78
11 "K"          58
12 "L"          48
13 "M"          48
14 "1"          44
15 "S"          38
16 "I"          36
17 "2"          35
18 "N"          33
19 "+"          32
20 "W"          24
21 "P"          21
22 "R"          13
23 "T"          13
24 "4"          10
25 "/"           8
26 "Q"           7
27 "5"           6
28 "6"           6
29 "O"           6
30 "V"           6
31 "`"           5
32 "3"           5
33 "7"           5
34 "8"           4
35 "X"           4
36 "U"           3
37 "\xab"        3
38 "-"           1
39 "0"           1
40 "9"           1
41 "Y"           1
  • half_code appears to indicate where there are multiple dwellings on one street-numbered block. Typical values would be A, B, …
  • Punctuation and non-printing characters are not plausible

4 Street

d %>% 
  dplyr::select(starts_with("street_")) %>% 
  skimr::skim()
Table 4.1: Data summary
Name Piped data
Number of rows 4099699
Number of columns 4
_______________________
Column type frequency:
character 4
________________________
Group variables None

Variable type: character

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate min max empty n_unique whitespace
street_dir 3812561 0.07 1 2 0 8 0
street_name 7 1.00 1 30 0 83244 0
street_type_cd 154594 0.96 2 4 0 119 0
street_sufx_cd 3941004 0.04 1 3 0 11 0

We are mostly interested in how much these fields are used, so concentrate on complete_rate.

All these variables are character variables, so min and max refer to the minimum and maximum lengths of the values as character strings.

The number of unique values, n_unique, is also of interest.

  • street_dir
    • 7% filled
    • 1 or 2 characters long
    • 8 unique values
  • street_name
    • ~100% filled (7 missing)
    • Some very short names
    • Wide range of lengths
    • Many unique values
  • street_type_cd
    • 96% filled
    • 2 to 4 characters long
    • 119 unique values
  • street_sufx_cd
    • 4% filled
    • 1 to 3 characters long
    • 11 unique values
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