[Data] us_census_bps — onboard the Census Building Permits Survey (25.7M rows, 11 tables) - #2007
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Onboards the Census Building Permits Survey into ten long tables plus a dictionary: monthly and annual counts and valuation of new residential construction by permit-issuing place, county, metropolitan area and state. The survey's ASCII files changed layout six times between 1980 and 2026, so parsing is driven by the two header rows each file carries rather than by the file name or the year. All 3,409 published files resolve into 21 distinct layouts with no unknown columns. Source behaviours handled, each of which loses data silently otherwise: - www2.census.gov answers HTTP 200 with a firewall "Request Rejected" page for a few valid URLs. Treating that as a 404 dropped four place months and one metropolitan month; a cache-busting query string recovers them. - 977 pre-2000 files end with a DOS end-of-file byte, which lands in a full-width row of empty fields in two of them. - The county files list some counties twice under variant spellings, with identical figures. Duplicates are collapsed on geography identity only, since one 2000 duplicate carries a wrong region code, and a repeat whose figures differ raises rather than being collapsed. - The January and March 1998 metropolitan files append 58 state records that all carry an identical, wrong measure block; they are dropped. - Valuation is published in thousands of dollars at state and metropolitan level and in dollars at county and place level. Everything is normalised to dollars, which makes county and state dollars per housing unit agree exactly for 2020-2025. 25,681,364 rows. Every table's key is unique, the published regional and divisional totals reconcile to the national total, and place-level units sum to the county files exactly for 99 to 100 percent of counties.
Eleven models over the all-STRING staging tables, partitioned on year and clustered on the geography and structure type. dbt run and dbt test both pass against dev: 11 models, 80 tests, no failures. The uploader streams each Parquet file to GCS and defines the staging table as an external Parquet table over the prefix. That reproduces exactly what basedosdados.Table.create produces, without its pandas step, which reads the whole file into memory and would need tens of gigabytes for the 19-million-row place table. Keeping it all-STRING also matches what the recurring pipeline's upload_to_gcs will later write over the same prefix. Referential allowances are measured against the US geography directory, not guessed, and each is explained in the model description: - state_id matches completely, so it takes the plain relationships test. It only does because the survey identified the territories by their old Census codes until 2021 and by FIPS from 2022, which the transform now normalises: Puerto Rico is 43 through 2021 and 72 after, and geography_id still carries the code as published. - county_id is 0.4 to 1.4 percent unmatched, almost all Connecticut's eight counties replaced by planning regions in 2022 and the split Alaska census areas. - place_id is 0.3 percent unmatched, from place code drift between decennial vintages against the 2020-vintage directory. - cbsa_id is 2.7 percent unmatched, from CBSA redelineations against the 2023-vintage directory.
Dataset building_permits_survey_bps: 11 tables, 5 raw data sources (one per geography level, so every table links exactly one), 171 columns with types, units, dictionary flags and directory links, observation levels, coverage, refresh records and per-table auxiliary-file bundles. Every write is read back and checked by verify_metadata.py, which passes. Two backend behaviours the registration has to work around: - CreateUpdateTable fails with "'TableForm' has no field named 'coverages_areas'" on any table that already has a coverage, so all table writes, including the deferred raw-source link, run before any coverage is created. - get_dataset does not return Coverage.isClosed, so the free and BD Pro coverages cannot be told apart through it. Reading them back through GraphQL instead; doing it the other way had already produced a duplicate free coverage, which was deleted. The monthly tables carry the BD Pro split the house rule calls for on any table refreshing monthly or more often: free through 2026-01, pro 2026-02 to 2026-07, on a six-month lag. Nothing is paywalled until a pipeline applies the row access policies. The annual tables and the two closed MSA series are entirely free. Auxiliary bundles hold the Census record layout for each geography level plus a README covering the citation, provenance and every transformation applied. They sit in basedosdados-dev because that is the only bucket this service account can write, and all ten URLs return HTTP 400 anonymously: both data buckets are requester-pays. That is the open defect PR #1928 fixes by moving bundles to basedosdados-public, not something specific to this dataset. New tag building-permit was created; nothing in the existing vocabulary covered the subject.
Three changes from the review, then the production promotion. - Backend slug is now `bps`, renamed in place on staging so the record keeps its id and history. The GCP dataset stays `us_census_bps`. - `buildings` and `units` carry measurement units. `Column.measurementUnit` is a free string, not a foreign key to the unit vocabulary, so `building` and `housing_unit` need no global vocabulary change. The unit is no longer repeated in the column observations. - Production metadata registered, dataset status `under_review` so it stays off the public site until the PR merges, table-approve materialises `basedosdados.us_census_bps.*`, and those tables are verified. Cloud tables point at `basedosdados`. The tag list is now per environment: staging still carries the older Portuguese slugs (`construcao`, `regulacao`, `real_estate`) while production uses English ones (`construction`, `regulation`, `real-estate`, the last of which has 10 datasets against 1 for the `real_estate` near-duplicate). `building-permit` was created in both. verify_metadata.py passes against staging and production.
Rebuilds the whole series each run rather than appending the newest month. The survey revises prior periods and a revision can land in any earlier month, so a trailing window would leave stale figures wherever a correction fell outside it; a full rebuild also reuses the onboarding path exactly. The cost is about 700 MB and 25.7 million rows once a month. Scheduled 25 15 17-22 BRT: the release lands around the 17th, roughly four weeks after the reference month, and 15:25 was an unused slot — flows piled on the same instant compete for BigQuery slots and fail together. Three things the flow does deliberately: - `dump_mode="append"` with an explicit staging-prefix clear, never `overwrite`. `overwrite` calls tb.delete(mode="all"), which drops the materialized production table, and it fires from the dev half too because bd.Table resolves its projects from the pod config rather than from bucket_name. The prefix clear does the wanted half without touching a BigQuery table, and closes the orphaned-part-file gap that append alone leaves when a run produces fewer parts than the last. - Every table is built before any test runs. The dictionary-coverage and relationship tests read sibling models, so interleaving run and test per table fails against a sibling that does not exist yet — invisible in a re-run, fatal in a clean environment. - job_variables sets memory_limit, not only memory, which the work pool's job template drops silently while leaving the pod on the 4Gi default. The download moves into pipelines/datasets/us_census_bps/utils.py so the pipeline and the one-shot bootstrap share one implementation, including the firewall handling: www2.census.gov answers HTTP 200 with a "Request Rejected" page for some valid URLs, and only a real 404 is treated as a missing file. download_all raises rather than returning a partial set. Also registers the raw-data-source Update in both backends, which the flow would otherwise only write on a run with update_metadata=True. The metropolitan source gets 2023-12, its real last release, not today's period.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds the US Census Building Permits Survey pipeline. It includes source downloading, cleaning, validation, Parquet staging, dbt models, metadata registration, auxiliary files, publication controls, and verification. ChangesUS Census BPS dataset
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The scheduled production rebuild can record a release without successfully publishing it, and partial or unvalidated table sets may become visible. Metadata can also accumulate duplicate updates and publish incorrect coverage, so these issues should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Census as Census source
participant Flow as us_census_bps_flow
participant Utils as us_census_bps.utils
participant Storage as GCS staging
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Census->>Flow: publish survey files
Flow->>Utils: download_all and clean_all
Utils-->>Flow: Parquet outputs and coverage period
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The first dev run drew HTTP 429 on three metro files partway through the download. `download_all` raised rather than returning a partial set and the task retry recovered it, which is the behaviour I want, but the per-file backoff was sized for a dropped connection: 2 to 10 seconds across its attempts. Under heavier throttling both task retries would burn out. 408, 429 and 503 now back off 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 120 seconds and honour a `Retry-After` header when the server sends one, capped at two minutes. Default concurrency drops from six to four, since six was enough to draw the throttling from a datacentre, where requests leave faster than they do from a laptop.
…via retries The second dev run consumed **both** Prefect task retries on HTTP 429 before the download completed on its third attempt — one more throttled file and the run would have failed. Leaning on the task retry was the wrong shape: it restarts the whole 3,400-file sweep to recover a handful of stragglers, and each restart applies the same concurrent pressure that caused the throttling. `download_all` now finishes its concurrent sweep, then retries whatever failed one file at a time, pausing 90 seconds before each pass and a second between files, for up to three passes. Only then does it raise. The cached-file check means the sweep itself is nearly free on a retry, so this costs nothing on a clean run. The task retry stays as a genuine last resort, raised to 3 attempts at 180 seconds since it now only fires when something is properly wrong. Verified with a stubbed fetch: two files failing the concurrent pass are recovered by the sequential pass, and the counts come back consistent.
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In `@models/us_census_bps/code/download.py`:
- Line 31: Update the workers argument in the CLI parser to use the downloader’s
safe default of four instead of six, ensuring download_all receives four workers
when --workers is omitted.
In `@models/us_census_bps/code/metadata_stage2.py`:
- Around line 120-126: Update register_source_update to look up the existing
month-entity Update for source["id"] before calling server.create_update_update,
pass its id via id=... when found, and pass None only when no record exists.
Preserve the current frequency, latest, raw_data_source_id, and env values while
ensuring repeated runs reuse the same record.
In `@models/us_census_bps/code/metadata.py`:
- Around line 19-21: Replace the hard-coded developer path setup in both
metadata scripts with the existing BD_MCP_PATH loader before importing server,
and ensure the loader reports a clear error when server.py is absent. Preserve
the documented direct-run behavior while removing machine-specific path
assumptions.
In `@models/us_census_bps/code/publish.py`:
- Around line 18-20: Replace the hard-coded MCP path setup in publish.py and
verify_metadata.py with a shared configurable helper that reads
DATABASIS_MCP_PATH, validates that server.py exists, and raises a clear
SystemExit when unset or invalid before importing server. Apply the helper
consistently to both scripts while preserving their existing main flows.
In `@models/us_census_bps/code/verify_metadata.py`:
- Around line 84-85: Update the metadata verification flow around TABLE_ORDER
and the dataset lookup so missing entries are recorded as problems and skipped
rather than raising KeyError or IndexError. In the loop that accesses
tables[slug], guard absent slugs before indexing and continue checking the
remaining tables; likewise, safely handle an empty dataset response before
accessing ["edges"][0], preserving the final problem report.
In `@pipelines/datasets/us_census_bps/flows.py`:
- Around line 208-218: Move the commit_source_update_task call after
_materialize(result, "basedosdados", "prod") so the source update is recorded
only after prod materialization succeeds. Preserve the existing arguments and
behavior of both operations.
- Around line 113-153: Update _materialize so all table uploads and dbt runs
occur in an isolated staging dataset, then execute the complete test loop there
before publishing anything. After every test passes, atomically promote the
validated set to the production dataset; ensure model or test failures leave
existing production tables unchanged.
In `@pipelines/datasets/us_census_bps/tasks.py`:
- Around line 82-87: Update the bd.Storage construction in clear_staging_prefix
to remove the unsupported bucket_name and billing_project_id arguments, and
configure billing through bd.config instead. Apply the same change to the
corresponding Storage usage in the tasks utility while preserving the existing
delete_table behavior.
In `@pipelines/datasets/us_census_bps/utils.py`:
- Around line 766-767: Validate the initial table-routing decision against the
resolved fields returned by read_file before reusing table in the second pass.
Compare the CBSA/metro routing implied by the resolved fields with the
header-based decision, and raise an error on any mismatch so the file cannot be
silently processed through the wrong to_columns branch.
- Around line 695-698: The coverage metadata in the dictionary rebuilt by
build_dicionario must be derived from each table’s latest written year rather
than frozen literals, including correcting cbsa_type to match
permit_cbsa_monthly through 2026. Update the relevant table-rebuild metadata and
dictionary generation flow so generated coverage bounds reflect the rebuilt
data, while preserving full_monthly_coverage as 2003(1)2023.
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Use the downloader’s safe worker default.
The CLI passes six workers to download_all, although its declared default is four. Six workers can trigger HTTP 429 responses. Recovery then waits 90 seconds before sequential passes and can raise RuntimeError if files remain failed. Set the CLI default to four workers.
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- parser.add_argument("--workers", type=int, default=6)
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| parser.add_argument("--workers", type=int, default=4) |
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In `@models/us_census_bps/code/download.py` at line 31, Update the workers
argument in the CLI parser to use the downloader’s safe default of four instead
of six, ensuring download_all receives four workers when --workers is omitted.
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| entity_id=entity["month"], | ||
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| latest=latest, | ||
| raw_data_source_id=source["id"], | ||
| env=env, | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Reuse the existing month-entity Update for each raw data source.
register_source_update runs on every normal run and with --source-update-only. server.create_update_update creates a duplicate when id is omitted. Read the existing month-entity Update id for source["id"] and pass it as id=...; pass None only when no record exists. Otherwise, repeated runs create duplicate records and make the source's latest release ambiguous.
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In `@models/us_census_bps/code/metadata_stage2.py` around lines 120 - 126, Update
register_source_update to look up the existing month-entity Update for
source["id"] before calling server.create_update_update, pass its id via id=...
when found, and pass None only when no record exists. Preserve the current
frequency, latest, raw_data_source_id, and env values while ensuring repeated
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Make the MCP import portable for direct metadata runs. Both scripts prepend a developer-only path before import server, so their documented commands can fail with ModuleNotFoundError on non-author machines. Use the existing BD_MCP_PATH loader in both files and report a clear error when server.py is missing. The CI metadata job does not run these scripts.
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In `@models/us_census_bps/code/metadata.py` around lines 19 - 21, Replace the
hard-coded developer path setup in both metadata scripts with the existing
BD_MCP_PATH loader before importing server, and ensure the loader reports a
clear error when server.py is absent. Preserve the documented direct-run
behavior while removing machine-specific path assumptions.
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Make the MCP import configurable in both scripts. No checked-in workflow invokes these standalone scripts. When a maintainer runs either script without the author’s Dropbox path and without server otherwise importable, the module-level import fails before main() runs. Resolve the MCP directory from an environment variable such as DATABASIS_MCP_PATH, validate server.py, and raise a clear SystemExit when the variable is unset or invalid. Apply the same helper to publish.py and verify_metadata.py.
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In `@models/us_census_bps/code/publish.py` around lines 18 - 20, Replace the
hard-coded MCP path setup in publish.py and verify_metadata.py with a shared
configurable helper that reads DATABASIS_MCP_PATH, validates that server.py
exists, and raises a clear SystemExit when unset or invalid before importing
server. Apply the helper consistently to both scripts while preserving their
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| for slug in TABLE_ORDER: | ||
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A missing table crashes the check instead of reporting it.
Line 81 detects that the registered table set does not match TABLE_ORDER and records a problem. Line 85 then indexes tables[slug] for every expected slug. If a table is not registered, or if it falls outside tables(first: 20), this raises KeyError and the script exits with a traceback. No problem list is printed, and the remaining tables are never checked. Skip absent slugs so the run completes and reports them.
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for slug in TABLE_ORDER:
- t = tables[slug]
+ t = tables.get(slug)
+ if t is None:
+ problems.append(f"{slug}: not registered")
+ continueLine 66 has the same shape problem: ["edges"][0] raises IndexError when the dataset does not exist in the target environment.
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In `@models/us_census_bps/code/verify_metadata.py` around lines 84 - 85, Update
the metadata verification flow around TABLE_ORDER and the dataset lookup so
missing entries are recorded as problems and skipped rather than raising
KeyError or IndexError. In the loop that accesses tables[slug], guard absent
slugs before indexing and continue checking the remaining tables; likewise,
safely handle an empty dataset response before accessing ["edges"][0],
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| tables = constants.TABLES.value | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Build and validate the complete dataset before publishing production tables.
_materialize runs each materialized="table" dbt model separately in the default production path. A later model failure can leave earlier production tables replaced while later tables retain the previous rebuild. The later test loop starts only after all model runs, so a test failure can publish the complete new set without passing validation. Build in an isolated dataset, run all tests there, and promote the complete set atomically. The source update does not provide this boundary; it only allows the coverage-based poll to retry.
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In `@pipelines/datasets/us_census_bps/flows.py` around lines 113 - 153, Update
_materialize so all table uploads and dbt runs occur in an isolated staging
dataset, then execute the complete test loop there before publishing anything.
After every test passes, atomically promote the validated set to the production
dataset; ensure model or test failures leave existing production tables
unchanged.
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| dataset_id=DATASET_ID, | ||
| table_id=POLL_TABLE, | ||
| source_max_date=max_year_month, | ||
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| date_format="%Y-%m", | ||
| update_metadata=update_metadata, | ||
| materialize_after_dump=materialize_to_prod, | ||
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Commit the source update after the prod materialization, not before.
poll_source_for_update_task exists so the Update write can be deferred until after materialization. Its contract states that the pair is used "when a gravação do Update precisa ser adiada para não travar runs futuras se o flow falhar no meio" (pipelines/utils/metadata/tasks.py:273-329). Here commit_source_update_task runs before _materialize(result, "basedosdados", "prod"). If dbt or the staging upload fails, the Update is already recorded. The next scheduled poll then reports no new data, and the new month is never materialized until someone runs with force_run=True.
Move the commit after _materialize.
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- commit_source_update_task(
- dataset_id=DATASET_ID,
- table_id=POLL_TABLE,
- source_max_date=max_year_month,
- env="prod",
- date_format="%Y-%m",
- update_metadata=update_metadata,
- materialize_after_dump=materialize_to_prod,
- )
-
_materialize(result, "basedosdados", "prod")
+
+ commit_source_update_task(
+ dataset_id=DATASET_ID,
+ table_id=POLL_TABLE,
+ source_max_date=max_year_month,
+ env="prod",
+ date_format="%Y-%m",
+ update_metadata=update_metadata,
+ materialize_after_dump=materialize_to_prod,
+ )📝 Committable suggestion
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| commit_source_update_task( | |
| dataset_id=DATASET_ID, | |
| table_id=POLL_TABLE, | |
| source_max_date=max_year_month, | |
| env="prod", | |
| date_format="%Y-%m", | |
| update_metadata=update_metadata, | |
| materialize_after_dump=materialize_to_prod, | |
| ) | |
| _materialize(result, "basedosdados", "prod") | |
| _materialize(result, "basedosdados", "prod") | |
| commit_source_update_task( | |
| dataset_id=DATASET_ID, | |
| table_id=POLL_TABLE, | |
| source_max_date=max_year_month, | |
| env="prod", | |
| date_format="%Y-%m", | |
| update_metadata=update_metadata, | |
| materialize_after_dump=materialize_to_prod, | |
| ) |
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In `@pipelines/datasets/us_census_bps/flows.py` around lines 208 - 218, Move the
commit_source_update_task call after _materialize(result, "basedosdados",
"prod") so the source update is recorded only after prod materialization
succeeds. Preserve the existing arguments and behavior of both operations.
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| storage = bd.Storage( | ||
| dataset_id=constants.DATASET_ID.value, | ||
| table_id=table_id, | ||
| bucket_name=bucket_name, | ||
| billing_project_id=bucket_name, | ||
| ) |
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basedosdados 2.0.2 python Storage class constructor parameters billing_project_id
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In version 2.0.2 and later of the basedosdados Python package, the Storage class constructor does not accept a billing_project_id parameter [1]. The constructor for the Storage class is defined as follows [2]: class Storage(Base): def init(self, dataset_id: str, table_id: str, kwargs) To configure the billing project ID for operations, you should set it globally using the basedosdados configuration object before instantiating the Storage class or performing operations [3][4][1]: import basedosdados as bd bd.config.billing_project_id = '' Attempting to pass billing_project_id as a keyword argument to the Storage constructor is not supported and will not have the intended effect [1]. This approach ensures that your billing project is correctly applied to all subsequent BigQuery and storage operations performed within that session [3][5].
Citations:
- 1: GitHub pull request 1578 in basedosdados/pipelines (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 2: https://basedosdados.org/docs/api_reference_python
- 3: https://pypi.org/project/basedosdados/
- 4: https://github.com/basedosdados/sdk
- 5: https://github.com/basedosdados/mais/blob/master/README.md
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site:github.com/basedosdados basedosdados Storage class billing_project_id 2.0.2
💡 Result:
In the basedosdados Python package, specifically for versions 2.0.2 and later, there are important changes regarding how the billing_project_id is handled in class constructors [1]. 1. Constructor Changes: The basedosdados library versions 2.0.2 and above do not accept bucket_name or billing_project_id as arguments in the constructors for the bd.Table and bd.Storage classes [1]. Previously, users might have attempted to pass these parameters directly when initializing these objects, but this is no longer supported [1]. 2. Recommended Configuration: To configure the billing project, you should set it globally before initializing these classes using the configuration object [1]: bd.config.billing_project_id = '' 3. General Billing Project Usage: For other functions in the library, such as bd.read_table or bd.read_sql, the billing_project_id can still be passed as a direct parameter in the function call [2][3][4]. Alternatively, it can be set globally as shown above to avoid passing it repeatedly [2][3][4]. If not set explicitly, the package may attempt to use default configurations or require manual setup via credentials files [2][5][4].
Citations:
- 1: GitHub pull request 1578 in basedosdados/pipelines (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 2: https://github.com/basedosdados/sdk
- 3: https://github.com/basedosdados/mais/
- 4: https://github.com/basedosdados/mais/blob/master/README.md
- 5: https://github.com/basedosdados/mcp
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Remove unsupported constructor arguments from bd.Storage.
The lock resolves basedosdados to 2.0.3. In this version, bd.Storage does not accept bucket_name or billing_project_id. clear_staging_prefix can therefore raise TypeError before delete_table. Remove both constructor arguments and configure billing through bd.config. Apply the same fix in pipelines/utils/tasks.py.
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In `@pipelines/datasets/us_census_bps/tasks.py` around lines 82 - 87, Update the
bd.Storage construction in clear_staging_prefix to remove the unsupported
bucket_name and billing_project_id arguments, and configure billing through
bd.config instead. Apply the same change to the corresponding Storage usage in
the tasks utility while preserving the existing delete_table behavior.
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| "cbsa_type": (_CBSA_TYPE_LABELS, "2024(1)2025"), | ||
| "full_monthly_coverage": (_COVERAGE_LABELS, "2003(1)2023"), | ||
| "footnote_code": (_FOOTNOTE_LABELS, "2005(1)2026"), | ||
| "central_city": (_CENTRAL_CITY_LABELS, "2000(1)2026"), |
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Derive dictionary coverage from each rebuilt table. build_dicionario prefers _DICTIONARY and only then reads the static architecture CSV. The first mismatch is permit_cbsa_monthly: its data coverage reaches 2026, but cbsa_type is emitted as 2024(1)2025. Derive each open end from that table’s latest written year. Leaving the literals empty is insufficient because the architecture CSV contains the same frozen bounds. Keep full_monthly_coverage closed at 2003(1)2023.
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In `@pipelines/datasets/us_census_bps/utils.py` around lines 695 - 698, The
coverage metadata in the dictionary rebuilt by build_dicionario must be derived
from each table’s latest written year rather than frozen literals, including
correcting cbsa_type to match permit_cbsa_monthly through 2026. Update the
relevant table-rebuild metadata and dictionary generation flow so generated
coverage bounds reflect the rebuilt data, while preserving full_monthly_coverage
as 2003(1)2023.
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| fields = ["cbsa"] if "CBSA" in header else [] | ||
| table = target_table(level, periodicity, fields) |
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Reconcile the two routing decisions, or a mis-sniffed metro file loses a whole period.
The destination table is decided twice. Here it comes from a substring test on header row 1 alone. In the second pass, line 785 calls read_file, which resolves the real field names, but the table from this sniff is reused.
If the two disagree for a metropolitan file, to_columns runs the wrong branch: an MSA-routed file has no msa_cmsa field, so msa_cmsa_id is None on every row, and keep_row then discards the entire file. The run still succeeds and reports only a "dropped" count, which is the silent shift this module states it prevents.
read_file already returns the resolved fields, so compare them with the sniffed route and raise on a mismatch.
🛡️ Proposed check in the second pass (near line 785)
level, periodicity, file_year, month = parse_filename(path.name)
fields, rows = read_file(path)
+ resolved = target_table(level, periodicity, fields)
+ if rows and resolved != table:
+ raise ValueError(
+ f"{path.name}: header sniff routed to {table} but the "
+ f"resolved header says {resolved}"
+ )
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the initial table-routing decision against the resolved fields returned by
read_file before reusing table in the second pass. Compare the CBSA/metro
routing implied by the resolved fields with the header-based decision, and raise
an error on any mismatch so the file cannot be silently processed through the
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What this adds
Onboards the U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey as
us_census_bps(backend dataset
bps): monthly and annual counts of buildings, housing unitsand construction valuation for new privately-owned residential construction
authorised by building permits, from 1980.
Ten long tables plus a dictionary, 25,681,364 rows. Each row is one
geography × period × structure type, with
buildings/units/valuation(the estimate including imputation for non-responding permit offices — the
series to use) and
*_reported(responding offices only).permit_place_monthlypermit_place_annualpermit_county_monthlypermit_county_annualpermit_cbsa_monthlypermit_cbsa_annualpermit_msa_monthlypermit_msa_annualpermit_state_monthlypermit_state_annualdicionarioMSA and CBSA are separate tables because the 2004 switch is a different code
system, not a renaming; the two do not join.
Parsing is header-driven, not year-driven
The survey's ASCII files changed layout six times between 1980 and 2026 —
fields added, moved and redefined. Parsing reads the two header rows each file
carries (identifiers end at the first
Bldgsin row 2; the last identifier isalways the geography name) and fails loudly on an unknown column, rather than
keying on the file name or the year. All 3,409 published files resolve into 21
distinct layouts with no unknown columns.
Source behaviours that would otherwise lose data silently
www2.census.govanswers HTTP 200 with a firewall "Request Rejected" pagefor a handful of valid URLs. Reading that as a 404 dropped four place months
and one metropolitan month on the first run, with no error anywhere. Only a
real HTTP 404 counts as missing; an HTML body at 200 is retried with a
cache-busting parameter, which recovers the file.
metro, dollars at county and place. Normalised to USD, after which county and
state dollars-per-unit agree exactly for 2020–2025.
full-width row of empty fields in two of them.
("Anchorage Borough" / "Anchorage Municipality") with identical figures.
Deduplicated on geography identity only — one 2000 duplicate of St. Clair
County IL carries a wrong region code, so keying on attributes leaves it
in. A repeat whose figures differ raises instead of being collapsed.
all carry an identical, wrong measure block. Dropped.
52 = Virgin Islands) through 2021, FIPS (72, 78) after.
state_idisnormalised to FIPS throughout so a territory keeps one identifier across the
panel; the state tables'
geography_idstill carries the code as published.The place-level join, measured
The place files carry a real FIPS place code from 2008 (a 4-digit Census
place code 2000–2007, nothing before). Where present it matches
br_bd_diretorios_us.placeat 99.7%. About 28% of permit offices have noplace code at all — they are minor civil divisions or county-part records,
and carry
mcd_idinstead. No rows are dropped for this.The 6-digit permit-office id is an alphabetical sort key and is reassigned
when offices are added: Addison village IL is
001000in 1988 and002800from 1995. It cannot key a panel, and the column description says so.
Validation
(total gap < 0.25%) in 2000, 2010, 2020 and 2025 — across all six layout eras.
description: county 0.4–1.4% (Connecticut's counties replaced by planning
regions in 2022, split Alaska census areas), place 0.3% (vintage drift),
CBSA 2.7% (redelineations).
state_idmatches completely.models/us_census_bps/code/validate.pyreproduces all of this on the localParquet before anything is uploaded.
Recurring pipeline
Monthly,
25 15 17,18,19,20,21,22 * *BRT — the release lands around the 17th,about four weeks after the reference month. Each run rebuilds the whole
series rather than appending: the survey revises prior periods and a revision
can fall in any earlier month, so a trailing window would leave stale figures
wherever a correction landed outside it. About 700 MB and 25.7M rows once a
month.
Two deliberate choices there:
dump_mode="append"plus an explicit staging-prefix clear, neveroverwrite.overwritecallstb.delete(mode="all"), which drops thematerialised production table — and it fires from the dev half too, because
bd.Tableresolves its projects from the pod config rather than frombucket_name. The prefix clear does the wanted half without touching anyBigQuery table, and closes the orphaned-part-file gap
appendalone leaves.relationship tests read sibling models, so interleaving run and test per table
fails against a sibling that does not exist yet — invisible in a re-run,
fatal in a clean environment.
job_variablessetsmemory_limit, not justmemory, which the work pool'sjob template silently drops.
BD Pro: the four live monthly tables carry the standard rolling window (free
through 2026-01, pro 2026-02→07, six-month lag) per the house rule for anything
refreshing monthly or more often. The annual tables and the two closed MSA
series are entirely free. Both coverages are registered, so
assert_coverage_topologypasses.Metadata
Registered and verified by reading it back (
verify_metadata.py) on bothstaging and production: 11 tables, 5 raw data sources (one per geography level,
so every table links exactly one — the poll cannot resolve a table with two),
171 columns with types, units, dictionary flags and directory links,
observation levels, coverage, and the three refresh records a recurring dataset
needs.
Production is
under_reviewand stays off the public site until this merges,table-approve materialises
basedosdados.us_census_bps.*, and those tables areverified.
Known gap, not introduced here
The ten per-table auxiliary-file bundles (Census record layouts plus a README
covering citation, provenance and every transformation applied) sit in
basedosdados-dev, the only bucket the onboarding service account can write.All ten URLs return HTTP 400 to an anonymous fetch — both data buckets are
requester-pays. That is the open defect #1928 fixes by moving bundles to
basedosdados-public; it affects all 84 production tables using the field.Deferred
The national seasonally adjusted New Residential Construction series (C-40 /
EITS
resconst) — a different product with different periodicity semantics.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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