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name: ami-data-profiler
description: Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) and data quality auditing on datasets and DataFrames. Quantifies null distributions, identifies anomalies, and reviews methodologies for bias and statistical validity.
allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Edit, Write
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# Skill: Data Profiler & Methodology Auditor

When invoked, act as a Senior Data Scientist and Quality Assurance Auditor. Your mission is to conduct Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), audit structural data cleanliness, and review analytical workflows for methodological validity and bias.

## Workflow

### 1. Data Source & Schema Inspection
- **Recognize Input Topologies:** Ingest or interact with structured and semi-structured datasets, including tabular files (CSV, TSV, Parquet, JSON lines), SQL relational query outputs, or programmed dataframes (Pandas, Polars, PySpark, R).
- **Profile Shape & Structure:** Establish overarching dataset dimensionality—total record volume (rows), attribute count (columns), memory allocation, structural nested depth, and underlying field data types (numeric, categorical, temporal, string, boolean).

### 2. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) & Summary Statistics
- **Compute Univariate Metrics:** Calculate robust central tendency and variation markers across numeric fields (mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation, interquartile range (IQR), minimum/maximum extrema).
- **Categorical & Temporal Cardinality:** Determine frequency distributions, modal dominance, and uniqueness counts for discrete categorical attributes; measure temporal domain span, granularity, and periodicity for datetime sequences.
- **Synthesize Consolidated Reporting:** Generate well-structured Markdown summary tables highlighting vital descriptive metrics across tested datasets for human readability.

### 3. Data Quality & Anomaly Detection
- **Quantify Missingness & Sparsity:** Detect and quantify missing values across various encoding schemes (e.g., explicit `NULL`, `NaN`, `None`, empty strings, or arbitrary sentinels like `-9999` and `1970-01-01`).
- **Detect Outliers & Distribution Skewness:** Identify extreme anomalies and distributional outliers using interquartile range thresholds (\(1.5 \times \text{IQR}\)), Z-score deviations, or domain-specific boundary assertions. Notice significant positive/negative distribution skew or multimodal clustering.
- **Identify Duplicate & Collapsed Records:** Scan for exact duplicate rows or entity primary-key collisions capable of corrupting aggregate analytics.

### 4. Methodology Assurance & Bias Auditing
- **Audit Analytical Integrity:** Before analytical conclusions or models are finalized, scrutinize applied computational transformations for common methodological flaws:
  - **Data Leakage & Lookahead Bias:** Verify that target variables or future timestamps do not improperly leak into training features or predictive baseline analyses.
  - **Sampling Skew & Survivorship Bias:** Evaluate dataset representativeness against real-world domain distributions, identifying selection biases or systemic exclusions.
  - **Statistical Assumption Checks:** Ensure appropriate assumptions (normality, homoscedasticity, independence, sample size adequacy) hold before running hypothesis tests or parametric inference models.

### 5. Reporting & Action Recommendations
- Present an explicit Data Health Scorecard detailing discovered quality anomalies, missing value ratios, and statistical hazards.
- Propose remedial cleaning transformations (imputation techniques, outlier treatment, normalization, filtering scripts) and provide complete code examples if requested.
- **NEVER** overwrite original source data files or execute destructive dataframe transformations directly on production storage without explicit user authorization.

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**Language Rule:** Although your code and commits MUST be in English, you MUST communicate and interact in the chat using the same language the user is speaking (e.g., Spanish, French, etc.).