The minimum input expected by the Draco system consists of the following two elements,
which need to be passed as pandas.DataFrame
objects:
A table containing the specification of the problem that we are solving, which has three columns:
turbine_id
: Unique identifier of the turbine which this label corresponds to.cutoff_time
: Time associated with this targettarget
: The value that we want to predict. This can either be a numerical value or a categorical label. This column can also be skipped when preparing data that will be used only to make predictions and not to fit any pipeline.
turbine_id | cutoff_time | target | |
---|---|---|---|
0 | T1 | 2001-01-02 00:00:00 | 0 |
1 | T1 | 2001-01-03 00:00:00 | 1 |
2 | T2 | 2001-01-04 00:00:00 | 0 |
A table containing the signal data from the different sensors, with the following columns:
turbine_id
: Unique identifier of the turbine which this reading comes from.signal_id
: Unique identifier of the signal which this reading comes from.timestamp (datetime)
: Time where the reading took place, as a datetime.value (float)
: Numeric value of this reading.
turbine_id | signal_id | timestamp | value | |
---|---|---|---|---|
0 | T1 | S1 | 2001-01-01 00:00:00 | 1 |
1 | T1 | S1 | 2001-01-01 12:00:00 | 2 |
2 | T1 | S1 | 2001-01-02 00:00:00 | 3 |
3 | T1 | S1 | 2001-01-02 12:00:00 | 4 |
4 | T1 | S1 | 2001-01-03 00:00:00 | 5 |
5 | T1 | S1 | 2001-01-03 12:00:00 | 6 |
6 | T1 | S2 | 2001-01-01 00:00:00 | 7 |
7 | T1 | S2 | 2001-01-01 12:00:00 | 8 |
8 | T1 | S2 | 2001-01-02 00:00:00 | 9 |
9 | T1 | S2 | 2001-01-02 12:00:00 | 10 |
10 | T1 | S2 | 2001-01-03 00:00:00 | 11 |
11 | T1 | S2 | 2001-01-03 12:00:00 | 12 |
Optionally, a third table can be added containing metadata about the turbines.
The only requirement for this table is to have a turbine_id
field, and it can have
an arbitraty number of additional fields.
turbine_id | manufacturer | ... | ... | ... | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | T1 | Siemens | ... | ... | ... |
1 | T2 | Siemens | ... | ... | ... |
As explained in a previous section, the input expected by the Draco system consists of
two tables which need to be passed as pandas.DataFrame
objects:
- The
target_times
table, which containing the specification of the problem that we are solving in the form of training examples with aturbine_id
, acutoff_time
and atarget
value. - The
readings
table, which contains the signal readings from the different sensors, withturbine_id
,signal_id
,timestamp
andvalue
fields.
However, in most scenarios the size of the available will far exceed the memory limitations
of the system on which Draco is being run, so loading all the data in a single
pandas.DataFrame
will not be possible.
In order to solve this situation, Draco provides a CSVLoader class which can be used to load data from what we call the Raw Data Format.
The Raw Data Format consists on a collection of CSV files stored in a single folder with the following structure:
- All the data from all the turbines is inside a single folder, which here we will call
readings
. - Inside the
readings
folder, one folder exists for each turbine, named exactly like the turbine:readings/T001
readings/T002
- ...
- Inside each turbine folder one CSV file exists for each month, named
%Y-%m.csv
.readings/T001/2010-01.csv
readings/T001/2010-02.csv
readings/T001/2010-03.csv
- ...
- Each CSV file contains three columns:
signal_id
: name or id of the signal.timestamp
: timestamp of the reading formatted as%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S
.value
: value of the reading.
This is an example of what a CSV contents look like:
signal_id | timestamp | value | |
---|---|---|---|
0 | S1 | 01/01/01 00:00:00 | 1 |
1 | S1 | 01/01/01 12:00:00 | 2 |
2 | S1 | 01/02/01 00:00:00 | 3 |
3 | S1 | 01/02/01 12:00:00 | 4 |
4 | S1 | 01/03/01 00:00:00 | 5 |
5 | S1 | 01/03/01 12:00:00 | 6 |
6 | S2 | 01/01/01 00:00:00 | 7 |
7 | S2 | 01/01/01 12:00:00 | 8 |
8 | S2 | 01/02/01 00:00:00 | 9 |
9 | S2 | 01/02/01 12:00:00 | 10 |
10 | S2 | 01/03/01 00:00:00 | 11 |
11 | S2 | 01/03/01 12:00:00 | 12 |