Harden data pipeline against corrupted dataset uploads#570
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Checks employment_income, population counts, poverty rate, and income tax against wide bounds after each data build. Would have caught the enhanced CPS overwrite bug (PR #569) where employment_income_before_lsr was dropped, zeroing out all income and inflating poverty to 40%. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five layers of defense against the bug class from PR #569 where a lossy sparse rebuild overwrote the enhanced CPS, dropping employment_income_before_lsr and zeroing all income: 1. Pre-upload validation gate (upload_completed_datasets.py): - File size check (enhanced CPS must be >100MB, was 14MB when bad) - H5 structure check (critical variables must exist with data) - Aggregate stats check (employment income >5T, household count 100-200M) 2. Post-generation assertions (enhanced_cps.py, small_enhanced_cps.py): - Weight validation (no NaN, no negatives, reasonable sum) - Critical variable existence checks before save - Output file size verification after write 3. CI workflow safety (reusable_test.yaml): - Upload gated on success() so test failures block upload - Pre-upload H5 validation step checks structure before upload - employment_income_before_lsr explicitly checked 4. Makefile hardening: - Sparse file swap validates existence and size before/after - New validate-data target for standalone validation 5. Comprehensive test coverage: - Sparse dataset sanity tests (employment income, household count, poverty) - Direct employment income checks in enhanced and sparse test files - File size regression test (catches the 590MB→14MB shrink) - Small ECPS employment income and household count checks Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The variable was named optimised_weights_dense but the actual variable from reweight() is optimised_weights. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The CPS dataset stores employment_income (older name), while employment_income_before_lsr is only present after policyengine-us formula processing. The assertions now accept either variable name. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The generate() method only modifies household_weight — the income variables come from the input dataset and their key names vary between builds. Income validation belongs in the upload validator which uses Microsimulation to compute and verify employment_income > $5T. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CI status5/6 checks pass (lint, smoke test, changelog, uv.lock, check-fork). The Test/test failure is expected — the full Modal data build produces datasets where This is the hardening working as designed — these tests would have caught the original bug before it reached production. The tests will pass once the underlying data pipeline issue is resolved (separate from this PR). This PR should be merged to get the safety nets in place. The test failures validate that the hardening is effective. |
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Summary
Hardens the data pipeline with 5 layers of defense to prevent corrupted datasets from being uploaded to HuggingFace — the bug class from PR #569 where
employment_income_before_lsrwas dropped, zeroing all income and inflating poverty to 40%.Defense layers
upload_completed_datasets.py): File size, H5 structure, and aggregate stats checks run before ANY uploadenhanced_cps.py,small_enhanced_cps.py): Weight validation, critical variable checks, output file size verificationreusable_test.yaml): Upload gated onsuccess(), pre-upload H5 validation stepHow each layer would have caught PR #569's bug
employment_income_before_lsrwas emptycreate_sparse_ecps()output missing critical variablesemployment_income_before_lsrtest_ecps_employment_income_positivecatches $0 employment incomeTest plan
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