Event-Driven Data Science: EventSourcingDB Meets Python and Pandas (docs.eventsourcingdb.io)

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EventSourcingDB announced native Pandas integration in its Python SDK plus an npm package (eventsourcingdb-merkle) for cryptographic verification, making it trivial to pull immutable event streams straight into a DataFrame for ad-hoc analysis. The team demonstrated the workflow on a real, sensitive dataset from an internal todo app (Apr 2024–Nov 2025): 8,264 events for 1,618 todos. Loading is a single client call and conversion (events → DataFrame) that preserves fields like event_id, time, subject, type, data and cryptographic fields (hash, signature), eliminating ETL or manual schema mapping. The project also publishes a Merkle Root to prove dataset integrity. The event analysis reveals patterns a snapshot DB would hide: 37.6% of events are "postponed", postponed→postponed occurs 2,019 times, median events per todo = 3 (mean 5.1) with a 267-event outlier, and a 91.8% completion rate among finalized todos. Temporal patterns show Monday 7 AM peak and Saturday as the second-busiest day. For AI/ML this matters because event stores provide immutability (reproducibility), ordered chronologies (causality), and complete histories (richer features). That enables sequence models, behavioral cohorts, anomaly detection, time-series forecasting and more—without building projections or pipelines—while cryptographic proofs ensure auditability of experiments and training data.
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