John Mount has an update on a Python package:
The data algebra is a modern realization of elements of Codd’s 1969 relational model for data wrangling (see also Codd’s 12 rules).
The idea is: most data manipulation tasks can usefully be broken down into a small number of fundamental data transforms plus composition. In Codd’s initial writeup, composition was expressed using standard mathematical operator notation. For “modern” realizations one wants to use a composition notation that is natural for the language you are working in. For Python the natural composition notation is method dispatch.
Click through to see how it works and what’s new in the latest version.