Tutorial

This tutorial will walk you through the main features of atoti.

We encourage you to play this notebook in JupyterLab:

  • Copy the tutorial: python -m atoti.copy_tutorial tutorial

  • Open JupyterLab: jupyter lab

  • Open the created tutorial directory and start playing its notebook.

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Getting started

From CSV to Cube

In this part of the tutorial, you will create your first cube from a CSV file and learn multidimensionnal concepts such as cube, dimension, hierarchy, measure.

Let’s start by creating a session:

[1]:
import atoti as tt

session = tt.create_session()

We can now load the data from a CSV file into an in-memory table called a store:

[2]:
sales_store = session.read_csv("data/sales.csv", keys=["Sale ID"])

We can have a look at the loaded data. They are sales from a company:

[3]:
sales_store.head()
[3]:
Date Shop Product Quantity Unit price
Sale ID
S000000000 2021-02-04 shop_0 TAB_0 1.0 210.0
S000000001 2021-02-03 shop_1 TAB_1 1.0 300.0
S000000002 2021-02-02 shop_2 CHA_2 2.0 60.0
S000000003 2021-02-01 shop_3 BED_3 1.0 150.0
S000000004 2021-01-31 shop_4 BED_4 3.0 300.0

We will come back to stores in details later, for now we will use the one we have to build a cube:

[4]:
cube = session.create_cube(sales_store)

That’s it, you have created your first cube! But what’s a cube exactly and how to use it?

Multidimensional concepts

A cube is a multidimensional view of some data, making it easy to explore, aggregate, filter and compare. It’s called a cube because each attribute of the data can be represented as a dimension of the cube:

Multidimensional cube concept

The axes of the cube are called hierarchies. The purpose of multidimensionnal analysis is to visualize some numeric indicators at specific coordinates of the cube. These indicators are called measures. An example of measure would be the amount of products sold.

We can list the hierarchies in our cube:

[5]:
# Aliasing the hierarchies property to a shorter variable name because we will use it a lot.
h = cube.hierarchies
h
[5]:
  • Dimensions
    • Sales
      • Date
        1. Date
      • Product
        1. Product
      • Sale ID
        1. Sale ID
      • Shop
        1. Shop

The cube has automatically created a hierarchy for each non numeric field: Date, Product, Sale ID and Shop.

You can see that the hierarchy are grouped into dimensions. Here we have a single dimension called sales, which is the name of the store the fields come from. We will see how to move hierarchies between dimensions later.

Hierarchies are also made of levels. Levels of the same hierarchy are attributes with a parent-child relationship. For instance, a city belongs to a country so Country and City could be the two levels of a Geography hierarchy.

At the moment, to keep it simple, we only have single-level hierarchies.

[6]:
l = cube.levels

Let’s have a look at the measures of the cube that have been inferred from the data:

[7]:
m = cube.measures
m
[7]:
  • Measures
    • Quantity.MEAN
      • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
    • Quantity.SUM
      • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
    • Unit price.MEAN
      • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
    • Unit price.SUM
      • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
    • contributors.COUNT
      • formatter: INT[#,###]

The cube has automatically created the sum and mean aggregations for all the numeric fields of the dataset.

Note that a measure isn’t a single result number, it’s more a formula that can be evaluated for any coordinates of the cube.

For instance, we can see the grand total of Quantity.SUM, which means summing the sold quantities over the whole dataset:

Grand total

[8]:
cube.query(m["Quantity.SUM"])
[8]:
Quantity.SUM
0 8,077.00

But we can also dice the cube to get the quantity for each Shop, which means taking one slice of the cube for each Shop:

Dicing the cube

[9]:
cube.query(m["Quantity.SUM"], levels=l["Shop"])
[9]:
Quantity.SUM
Shop
shop_0 202.00
shop_1 202.00
shop_10 203.00
shop_11 203.00
shop_12 201.00
shop_13 202.00
shop_14 202.00
shop_15 202.00
shop_16 201.00
shop_17 204.00
shop_18 202.00
shop_19 202.00
shop_2 202.00
shop_20 201.00
shop_21 201.00
shop_22 201.00
shop_23 203.00
shop_24 203.00
shop_25 201.00
shop_26 202.00
shop_27 202.00
shop_28 202.00
shop_29 201.00
shop_3 201.00
shop_30 204.00
shop_31 202.00
shop_32 202.00
shop_33 201.00
shop_34 201.00
shop_35 201.00
shop_36 203.00
shop_37 203.00
shop_38 201.00
shop_39 202.00
shop_4 204.00
shop_5 202.00
shop_6 202.00
shop_7 201.00
shop_8 201.00
shop_9 201.00

We can slice on a single Shop:

Slicing the cube

[10]:
cube.query(
    m["Quantity.SUM"],
    condition=l["Shop"] == "shop_0",
)
[10]:
Quantity.SUM
0 202.00

We can dice along 2 different axes and take the quantity per product and date.

Pivot table

[11]:
cube.query(m["Quantity.SUM"], levels=[l["Date"], l["Product"]])
[11]:
Quantity.SUM
Date Product
2021-01-06 BED_24 8.00
BED_25 4.00
BED_26 6.00
BED_27 4.00
BED_3 2.00
... ... ...
2021-02-04 TSH_52 6.00
TSH_53 4.00
TSH_7 3.00
TSH_8 5.00
TSH_9 3.00

1830 rows × 1 columns

We can even combine these operations to slice on one hierarchy and dice on the two others:

Slice and dice

[12]:
cube.query(
    m["Quantity.SUM"],
    levels=[l["Date"], l["Product"]],
    condition=l["Shop"] == "shop_0",
)
[12]:
Quantity.SUM
Date Product
2021-01-15 BED_24 1.00
BED_26 1.00
BED_3 1.00
BED_4 1.00
BED_46 1.00
... ... ...
2021-02-04 TSH_51 2.00
TSH_52 1.00
TSH_53 1.00
TSH_7 1.00
TSH_9 1.00

125 rows × 1 columns

First visualization

So far we have used cube.query which returns a table as a pandas DataFrame but a better way to visualize multidimensional data is a pivot table. With atoti’s JupyterLab extension, you can do advanced and interactive visualizations such as pivot tables and charts directly into your notebook by calling session.visualize().

This will create a widget and open the atoti tab on the left with tools to manipulate the widget.

Let’s start by creating a pivot table:

  • Run session.visualize().

  • In the left panel, click on a measure such as Amount.SUM to add it.

  • Click on a hierarchy such as Date to get the amount per date.

  • Drag and drop another hierarchy such as Product to the Columns section to get the amount sold per day and per product.

First pivot table

[13]:
session.visualize()
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A pivot table can be switched to a chart.

For instance let’s switch to a simple line chart.

First atoti chart

[14]:
session.visualize()
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Drilldown and filters

Multidimensional analysis is meant to be done from top to bottom: start by visualizing the indicators at the top level then drilldown to explain the top figures with more details.

For instance, we can visualize some measures per date then drilldown on Shop for a specific date, then see the products sold by a specific shop on this date.

Using the previous cube representation, this is like zooming more and more on a part of the cube.

Drilldown the cube

Drilldown

[15]:
session.visualize()
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Hierarchies can be filtered when building widgets. Let’s apply a filter on the previous chart and only visualize the amount for a group of selected products.

Chart filter

[16]:
session.visualize()
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Dashboarding application

Being able to quickly build widgets inside a notebook without coding is nice to rapidly explore the data, iterate on your model and share some results. However, to provide richer insights, dashboards are even better. That’s why atoti comes with a web application that can be accessed outside of the notebook and where widgets can be laid out to form dashboards.

The URL of this application can be accessed like that:

[17]:
session.url
[17]:
'http://localhost:33591'

It’s possible to publish widgets built in the notebook to the application by right clicking on them and selecting “Publish widget in app”. They will then be available in the “Saved widgets” section.

Publish widget in application

Enriching the cube

In the previous section, you have learned how to create a basic cube and manipulate it. We will now enrich this cube with additional attributes and more interesting measures.

Join

Currently, we have very limited information about our products: only the ID. We can load a CSV containing more details into a new store:

[18]:
products_store = session.read_csv("data/products.csv", keys=["Product"])

Note that a store can have a set of keys. These keys are the columns which make each line unique. Here, it’s the product ID.

If you try to insert a new row with the same keys as an existing row, it will override the existing one.

[19]:
products_store.head()
[19]:
Category Sub category Size Purchase price Color Brand
Product
TAB_0 Furniture Table 1m80 190.0 black Basic
TAB_1 Furniture Table 2m40 280.0 white Mega
CHA_2 Furniture Chair N/A 48.0 blue Basic
BED_3 Furniture Bed Single 127.0 red Mega
BED_4 Furniture Bed Double 252.0 brown Basic

This store contains the category, subcategory, size, color, purchase price and brand of the product. Both stores have a Product column we can use to join them.

Note that this is a database-like join and not a pandas-like join. All the details from products_store won’t be inlined into sales_store. Instead, this just declares a reference between these two stores that the cube can use to provide more analytical axes.

[20]:
sales_store.join(products_store, mapping={"Product": "Product"})

You can visualize the structure of the whole datastore:

[21]:
session.stores.schema
[21]:
../_images/tutorial_tutorial_44_0.svg

The new columns have been automatically added to the cube as hierarchies, in a dimension with the same name as the new store:

[22]:
h
[22]:
  • Dimensions
    • Products
      • Brand
        1. Brand
      • Category
        1. Category
      • Color
        1. Color
      • Size
        1. Size
      • Sub category
        1. Sub category
    • Sales
      • Date
        1. Date
      • Product
        1. Product
      • Sale ID
        1. Sale ID
      • Shop
        1. Shop

You can use them directly in a new widget. For instance, let’s create a bar chart to visualize the mean price per subcategory of product:

Price per category

[23]:
session.visualize()
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We can also make a donut chart to see how all the sales are distributed between brands:

Donut chart brands

[24]:
session.visualize()
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Note that after the join we can add a new measure called Purchase price.VALUE based on the corresponding column of the joined store. This measure represents the value of the column so it is only defined when all the keys of the joined store are expressed in the query.

[25]:
m["Purchase price.VALUE"] = tt.value(products_store["Purchase price"])

For instance we can check the purchase price per Product:

[26]:
cube.query(m["Purchase price.VALUE"], levels=l["Product"])
[26]:
Purchase price.VALUE
Product
BED_24 127.00
BED_25 252.00
BED_26 333.00
BED_27 375.00
BED_3 127.00
... ...
TSH_52 20.00
TSH_53 21.00
TSH_7 17.00
TSH_8 18.00
TSH_9 19.00

61 rows × 1 columns

In a similar way, we can enrich the data about the shops:

[27]:
shops_store = session.read_csv("data/shops.csv", keys=["Shop ID"])
shops_store.head()
[27]:
City State or region Country Shop size
Shop ID
shop_0 New York New York USA big
shop_1 Los Angeles California USA medium
shop_2 San Diego California USA medium
shop_3 San Jose California USA medium
shop_4 San Francisco California USA small
[28]:
sales_store.join(shops_store, mapping={"Shop": "Shop ID"})
session.stores.schema
[28]:
../_images/tutorial_tutorial_57_0.svg

We can now plot the evolution of the sales per country over time:

Amount per country over time

[29]:
session.visualize()
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New measures

So far we have only used the default measures which are basic aggregations of the numeric columns. We can add new custom measures to our cube.

Max

We’ll start with a simple aggregation taking the maximum price of the sales store:

[30]:
m["Max price"] = tt.agg.max(sales_store["Unit price"])

This new measure is directly available:

[31]:
cube.query(m["Max price"], include_totals=True, levels=l["Category"])
[31]:
Max price
Category
Total 440.00
Cloth 60.00
Furniture 440.00

Fact-level operations

To compute aggregates based of data which comes directly from the columns of a store, you can pass the calculation directly to the desired aggregation function. This is more efficient than first converting the columns to measures before the aggregation.

Let’s use this to compute the total amount earned from the sale of the products, as well as the average.

Note the use of the origin scope instructing to perform the multiplication for each Sale ID and then do the sum.

[32]:
m["Amount.SUM"] = tt.agg.sum(
    sales_store["Quantity"] * sales_store["Unit price"],
    scope=tt.scope.origin(l["Sale ID"]),
)
m["Amount.MEAN"] = tt.agg.mean(
    sales_store["Quantity"] * sales_store["Unit price"],
    scope=tt.scope.origin(l["Sale ID"]),
)
[33]:
cube.query(m["Amount.SUM"], m["Amount.MEAN"])
[33]:
Amount.SUM Amount.MEAN
0 961,463.00 192.29

Margin

Now that the price of each product is available from the products store, we can compute the margin.

To do that, we start by computing the cost which is the quantity sold multiplied by the purchase price, summed over all the products.

[34]:
cost = tt.agg.sum(
    m["Quantity.SUM"] * products_store["Purchase price"],
    scope=tt.scope.origin(l["Product"]),
)
[35]:
m["Margin"] = m["Amount.SUM"] - cost

We can also define the margin rate which is the ratio of the margin by the the sold amount:

[36]:
m["Margin rate"] = m["Margin"] / m["Amount.SUM"]
[37]:
cube.query(m["Margin"], m["Margin rate"], levels=l["Product"])
[37]:
Margin Margin rate
Product
BED_24 3,082.00 .15
BED_25 6,336.00 .16
BED_26 8,060.00 .16
BED_27 8,580.00 .15
BED_3 3,036.00 .15
... ... ...
TSH_52 520.00 .17
TSH_53 396.00 .12
TSH_7 393.00 .15
TSH_8 264.00 .10
TSH_9 390.00 .14

61 rows × 2 columns

Let’s use this margin rate to do a Top 10 filter to see the products with the best rate.

Note that you don’t need to put the rate measure and the product level in the pivot table to apply the filter.

top10 filter on the margin rate

[38]:
session.visualize()
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Cumulative sum over time

A cumulative sum is the partial sum of the data up to the current value. For instance, a cumulative sum over time can be used to show how some measure changes over time.

[39]:
m["Cumulative amount"] = tt.agg.sum(
    m["Amount.SUM"], scope=tt.scope.cumulative(l["Date"])
)

Cumulative amount

[40]:
session.visualize()
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Average per store

Aggregations can also be combined. For instance, we can sum inside a Shop: then take the average of this to see how much a store sales on average:

[41]:
m["Average amount per shop"] = tt.agg.mean(
    m["Amount.SUM"], scope=tt.scope.origin(l["Shop"])
)
[42]:
cube.query(m["Average amount per shop"], include_totals=True, levels=l["Sub category"])
[42]:
Average amount per shop
Sub category
Total 192.29
Bed 517.43
Chair 97.80
Hoodie 76.05
Shoes 97.24
Table 408.41
Tshirt 35.61

Multilevel hierarchies

So far, all our hierarchies only had one level but it’s best to regroup attributes with a parent-child relationship in the same hierarchy.

For example, we can group the Category, SubCategory and Product ID levels into a Product hierarchy:

[43]:
h["Product"] = [l["Category"], l["Sub category"], l["Product"]]

And let’s remove the old hierarchies:

[44]:
del h["Category"]
del h["Sub category"]
[45]:
h
[45]:
  • Dimensions
    • Products
      • Brand
        1. Brand
      • Color
        1. Color
      • Product
        1. Category
        2. Sub category
        3. Product
      • Size
        1. Size
    • Sales
      • Date
        1. Date
      • Product
        1. Product
      • Sale ID
        1. Sale ID
      • Shop
        1. Shop
    • Shops
      • City
        1. City
      • Country
        1. Country
      • Shop size
        1. Shop size
      • State or region
        1. State or region

We can also do it with City, State or Region and Country to build a Geography hierarchy.

Note that instead of using existing levels you can also define a hierarchy with the fields of the store the levels will be based on:

[46]:
h["Geography"] = [
    shops_store["Country"],
    shops_store["State or region"],
    shops_store["City"],
]
del h["Country"]
del h["State or region"]
del h["City"]

As we are restructuring the hierarchies, let’s use this opportunity to also change the dimensions.

A dimension regroups hierarchies of the same concept.

To keep it simple here, we will simply move the new Geography hierarchy to its own dimension:

[47]:
h["Geography"].dimension = "Location"
h
[47]:
  • Dimensions
    • Location
      • Geography
        1. Country
        2. State or region
        3. City
    • Products
      • Brand
        1. Brand
      • Color
        1. Color
      • Product
        1. Category
        2. Sub category
        3. Product
      • Size
        1. Size
    • Sales
      • Date
        1. Date
      • Product
        1. Product
      • Sale ID
        1. Sale ID
      • Shop
        1. Shop
    • Shops
      • Shop size
        1. Shop size

With that, we can define new measures taking advantage of the multilevel structure. For instance, we can create a measure indicating how much a product contributes to its subcategory:

[48]:
m["Parent category amount"] = tt.parent_value(
    m["Amount.SUM"], on=h[("Products", "Product")]
)
[49]:
m["Percent of parent amount"] = m["Amount.SUM"] / m["Parent category amount"]

Percent of parent

[50]:
session.visualize()
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Polishing the cube

Deleting or hiding measures

Some measures have been automatically created from numeric fields but are not useful. For instance, Unit Price.SUM does not really make sense as we never want to sum the unit prices. We can delete it:

[51]:
del m["Unit price.SUM"]

Other measures have been used while building the project only as intermediary steps but are not useful to the end users in the application. We can hide them from the UI (they will remain accessible in Python):

[52]:
m["Parent category amount"].visible = False

Measure folders

Measures can be rearranged into folders.

[53]:
for measure in [
    m["Amount.MEAN"],
    m["Amount.SUM"],
    m["Average amount per shop"],
    m["Cumulative amount"],
    m["Percent of parent amount"],
]:
    measure.folder = "Amount"
[54]:
m
[54]:
  • Measures
    • 📁 Amount
      • Amount.MEAN
        • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
      • Amount.SUM
        • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
      • Average amount per shop
        • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
      • Cumulative amount
        • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
      • Percent of parent amount
        • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
    • Margin
      • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
    • Margin rate
      • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
    • Max price
      • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
    • Purchase price.VALUE
      • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
    • Quantity.MEAN
      • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
    • Quantity.SUM
      • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
    • Unit price.MEAN
      • formatter: DOUBLE[#,###.00]
    • contributors.COUNT
      • formatter: INT[#,###]

Measure formatters

Some measures can be formatted for a nicer display. Classic examples of this is changing the number of decimals or adding a percent or a currency symbol.

Let’s do this for our percent of parent amount and margin rate:

Before

[55]:
cube.query(m["Percent of parent amount"], m["Margin rate"], levels=l["Category"])
[55]:
Percent of parent amount Margin rate
Category
Cloth .24 .23
Furniture .76 .13
[56]:
m["Percent of parent amount"].formatter = "DOUBLE[0.00%]"
m["Margin rate"].formatter = "DOUBLE[0.00%]"

After

[57]:
cube.query(m["Percent of parent amount"], m["Margin rate"], levels=l["Category"])
[57]:
Percent of parent amount Margin rate
Category
Cloth 23.64% 22.56%
Furniture 76.36% 13.49%

Simulations

Simulations are a way to compare several scenarios and do what-if analysis. This is very powerful as it helps understanding how changing the source data or a piece of the model impact the key indicators.

In atoti, the data model is made of measures chained together. A simulation can be seen as changing one part of the model, either its source data or one of its measure definitions, and then evaluating how it impacts the following measures.

Source simulation

Let’s start by changing the source. With pandas or Spark, if you want to compare two results for a different versions of the entry dataset you have to reapply all the transformations to your dataset. With atoti, you only have to provide the new data and all the measures will be automatically available for both versions of the data.

We will create a new scenario using pandas to modify the original dataset.

[58]:
import pandas as pd

For instance, we can simulate what would happen if we had managed to purchase some products at a cheaper price.

[59]:
products_df = pd.read_csv("data/products.csv")
products_df.head()
[59]:
Product Category Sub category Size Purchase price Color Brand
0 TAB_0 Furniture Table 1m80 190.0 black Basic
1 TAB_1 Furniture Table 2m40 280.0 white Mega
2 CHA_2 Furniture Chair NaN 48.0 blue Basic
3 BED_3 Furniture Bed Single 127.0 red Mega
4 BED_4 Furniture Bed Double 252.0 brown Basic
[60]:
better_prices = {
    "TAB_0": 180.0,
    "TAB_1": 250.0,
    "CHA_2": 40.0,
    "BED_3": 110.0,
    "BED_4": 210.0,
}
[61]:
for product, purchase_price in better_prices.items():
    products_df.loc[
        products_df["Product"] == product, "Purchase price"
    ] = purchase_price
products_df.head()
[61]:
Product Category Sub category Size Purchase price Color Brand
0 TAB_0 Furniture Table 1m80 180.0 black Basic
1 TAB_1 Furniture Table 2m40 250.0 white Mega
2 CHA_2 Furniture Chair NaN 40.0 blue Basic
3 BED_3 Furniture Bed Single 110.0 red Mega
4 BED_4 Furniture Bed Double 210.0 brown Basic

We can now load this new dataframe into a new scenarios of the product store.

[62]:
products_store.scenarios["Cheaper purchase prices"].load_pandas(products_df)

The session now has two scenarios and the only differences between them are the lines corresponding to the products with better prices, everything else is shared between the scenarios and has not been duplicated: source scenarios in atoti are memory-efficient.

Source simulation

Using the Source Simulation hierarchy we can display the margin of the scenario and compare it to the base case.

Source simulation comparison

[63]:
session.visualize()
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Note that all the existing measures are immediately available on the new data. For instance, the margin rate still exists, and we can see that in this scenario we would have a better margin for the Furniture products.

Margin rate per product category and scenario

[64]:
session.visualize()
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Measures simulations

The other simulation technique is to change the value of a measure for some coordinates. The value of the simulated measure can be multiplied by some factor, added to a fixed amount, or completely replaced.

When creating the simulation, you can choose at which granularity the modification applies. For instance, we can create a simulation of the quantity and amount measures per country. Doing that, we can answer questions such as “What happens if there is a crisis in France and we sell 20% less?”

[65]:
quantity_simulation = cube.setup_simulation(
    "Country Simulation",
    levels=[l["Country"]],
    multiply=[m["Quantity.SUM"], m["Amount.SUM"]],
)

Let’s add a first scenario to this simulation:

[66]:
france_crisis = quantity_simulation.scenarios["France crisis"]

A scenario is like a store where you can add new parameters to configure the scenario. In this scenario, we decided that France sell 20% less so let’s multiply the quantity and the amount by 80% only for France.

[67]:
france_crisis += ("France", 0.80, 0.80)
france_crisis.head()
[67]:
Country Simulation_Quantity.SUM_multiply Country Simulation_Amount.SUM_multiply Priority
Country
France 0.8 0.8 0.0

Let’s query the cube using the new Country Simulation hierarchy to compare the quantity and amount between the base case and our new scenario:

[68]:
cube.query(
    m["Quantity.SUM"],
    m["Amount.SUM"],
    include_totals=True,
    levels=[l["Country Simulation"], l["Country"]],
)
[68]:
Quantity.SUM Amount.SUM
Country Simulation Country
Base 8,077.00 961,463.00
France 3,027.00 358,042.00
USA 5,050.00 603,421.00
France crisis 7,471.60 889,854.60
France 2,421.60 286,433.60
USA 5,050.00 603,421.00

A measure simulation can be seen as something intercepting the regular aggregation flow to override the value of one or more measures for the specified coordinates.

Here for example, as the amount has been modified, the measures depending on it such as the cumulative amount are also impacted.

[69]:
cube.query(m["Cumulative amount"], levels=[l["Country Simulation"], l["Country"]])
[69]:
Cumulative amount
Country Simulation Country
Base France 358,042.00
USA 603,421.00
France crisis France 286,433.60
USA 603,421.00

The current measure simulation can be illustrated like this:

Measure simulations

Note that you are not limited to a single scenario:

[70]:
quantity_simulation.scenarios["US boost"] += ("USA", 1.15, 1.15)
[71]:
cube.query(m["Quantity.SUM"], levels=[l["Country Simulation"], l["Country"]])
[71]:
Quantity.SUM
Country Simulation Country
Base France 3,027.00
USA 5,050.00
France crisis France 2,421.60
USA 5,050.00
US boost France 3,027.00
USA 5,807.50

The two scenarios can be visualized in the same widget:

Cumulative amount per scenario

[72]:
session.visualize()
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Finally, we can even combine the different simulations (the source one and the measure one) to create a matrix of scenarios:

Matrix of scenarios

[73]:
session.visualize()
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Going further

You’ve learned all the basics to build a project with atoti, from the concept of multidimensional analysis to powerful simulations.

We now encourage you to try the library with your own data. You can also start to learn more advanced features such as session configuration, custom endpoints, querying, and arrays.