Skip to main content

great-expectations

Overview​

Great expectations let's you test & document your data. It supports many computation backends from pandas, spark to databases like snowflake.

On some level great-expectations competes with dbt test functionality.

One cool feature of great-expectations is ability to generate data docs which describe your data & tests run.

Below example of how generated great_expectations docs look like when uploaded to re_cloud:

great_expectations_example

Uploading to re_cloud​

Great-expectations data docs, are most usefull when shared with others. That's why we made is easily possible to send them to re_cloud and collobarote on the results with other people.

To upload great_expectations docs to re_cloud cd to you GE folder with data docs generated and run upload command:

cd YOUR_GE_FOLDER
re_cloud upload great-expectations

re_cloud command​

Below we show all the currently supported options on how you can upload great-expectations to re_cloud

re_cloud upload great-expectations --name TEXT 

Options:
  --channel-name-or-id TEXT  The slack channel name to send the report
                             uploaded message if a slack account is connected
                             to the re_cloud account. It could be a channel
                             name, channel id or member id.
  --name TEXT                Name of the upload used for identification
  --config-dir TEXT          Path to the directory containing re_data.yml
                             config file
  --path TEXT                path to the directory containing or files to push
                             to re_cloud
  --help                     Show this message and exit.

Next steps​

If you would like to jump into uploading data you can create your free account here 😊 if you have more questions for us: don't be reluctant to join our Slack! 😊