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FHV trips

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How to run this project

About the project

This project is based in dbt starter project (generated by running dbt init) Try running the following commands:

  • dbt run
  • dbt test

A project includes the following files:

  • dbt_project.yml: file used to configure the dbt project. If you are using dbt locally, make sure the profile here matches the one setup during installation in ~/.dbt/profiles.yml
  • *.yml files under folders models, data, macros: documentation files
  • csv files in the data folder: these will be our sources, files described above
  • Files inside folder models: The sql files contain the scripts to run our models, this will cover staging, core and a datamarts models. At the end, these models will follow this structure:

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Workflow

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Execution

After having installed the required tools and cloning this repo, execute the following commnads:

  1. Change into the project's directory from the command line: $ cd [..]/taxi_rides_ny
  2. Load the CSVs into the database. This materializes the CSVs as tables in your target schema: $ dbt seed
  3. Run the models: $ dbt run
  4. Test your data: $ dbt test Alternative: use $ dbt build to execute with one command the 3 steps above together
  5. Generate documentation for the project: $ dbt docs generate
  6. View the documentation for the project, this step should open the documentation page on a webserver, but it can also be accessed from http://localhost:8080 : $ dbt docs serve

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