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flowmachine.features.subscriber.first_location

Source: flowmachine/features/subscriber/first_location.py

Identifies the first location in which a subscriber is seen within a specified time period.

Class FirstLocation

FirstLocation(start, stop, *, location, spatial_unit: Union[flowmachine.core.spatial_unit.CellSpatialUnit, flowmachine.core.spatial_unit.GeomSpatialUnit] = CellSpatialUnit(), hours: Union[Tuple[int, int], NoneType] = None, table='all', subscriber_identifier='msisdn', ignore_nulls=True, subscriber_subset=None)
Source: flowmachine/features/subscriber/first_location.py

Class that defines the time at which the subscriber was first spotted at the location in question. Note this does not imply that the subscriber was never here before, but this is the first time within the specified time range.

Attributes

Parameters

  • start: str

    String representing the beginning of the focal time period

  • stop: str

    String representing the end of the focal period

  • location: or list/tuple thereof, tuple, dict, str

    str representing the location of interest. Could be a cell or an admin region for instance. You must specify spatial_unit to match this. i.e. location='ER0980', spatial_unit=make_spatial_unit('cell'). Can also pass a list of strings e.g. ['ER0980', 'CW2020'] will return the time at which the subscriber was first at any of these locations. Pass the argument 'any', to find the first time a subscriber pops up at any location. For spatial units with multiple location_id_columns, see SpatialUnitMixin.location_subset_clause or LonLatSpatialUnit.location_subset_clause for a description of the allowed formats for the location argument.

  • spatial_unit: typing.Union[flowmachine.core.spatial_unit.CellSpatialUnit, flowmachine.core.spatial_unit.GeomSpatialUnit], default CellSpatialUnit()

    Spatial unit to which subscriber locations will be mapped. See the docstring of make_spatial_unit for more information.

  • subscriber_identifier: {'msisdn', 'imei'}, default 'msisdn'

    Either msisdn, or imei, the column that identifies the subscriber.

  • subscriber_subset: flowmachine.core.Table, flowmachine.core.Query, list, str, default None

    If provided, string or list of string which are msisdn or imeis to limit results to; or, a query or table which has a column with a name matching subscriber_identifier (typically, msisdn), to limit results to.

Methods

cache

cache
Source: flowmachine/core/query.py

Returns
  • bool

    True is caching is switched on.

column_names

column_names
Source: flowmachine/features/subscriber/first_location.py

Returns the column names.

Returns
  • typing.List[str]

    List of the column names of this query.

column_names_as_string_list

column_names_as_string_list
Source: flowmachine/core/query.py

Get the column names as a comma separated list

Returns
  • str

    Comma separated list of column names

dependencies

dependencies
Source: flowmachine/core/query.py

Returns
  • set

    The set of queries which this one is directly dependent on.

fully_qualified_table_name

fully_qualified_table_name
Source: flowmachine/core/query.py

Returns a unique fully qualified name for the query to be stored as under the cache schema, based on a hash of the parameters, class, and subqueries.

Returns
  • str

    String form of the table's fqn

index_cols

index_cols
Source: flowmachine/core/query.py

A list of columns to use as indexes when storing this query.

Returns
  • ixen: list

    By default, returns the location columns if they are present and self.spatial_unit is defined, and the subscriber column.

Examples
daily_location("2016-01-01").index_cols
[['name'], '"subscriber"']

is_stored

is_stored
Source: flowmachine/core/query.py

Returns
  • bool

    True if the table is stored, and False otherwise.

query_id

query_id
Source: flowmachine/core/query.py

Generate a uniquely identifying hash of this query, based on the parameters of it and the subqueries it is composed of.

Returns
  • str

    query_id hash string

query_state

query_state
Source: flowmachine/core/query.py

Return the current query state.

Returns
  • QueryState

    The current query state

query_state_str

query_state_str
Source: flowmachine/core/query.py

Return the current query state as a string

Returns
  • str

    The current query state. The possible values are the ones defined in flowmachine.core.query_state.QueryState.

table_name

table_name
Source: flowmachine/core/query.py

Returns a uniquename for the query to be stored as, based on a hash of the parameters, class, and subqueries.

Returns
  • str

    String form of the table's fqn