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Decision brief
Great Expectations (GX) is a Python-based tool for data quality testing and documentation, offering expressive unit tests and automated documentation to maintain high standards of data integrity.
Good fit when
- When you need a tool that provides expressive and extensible unit tests for your data, fostering collaboration through a common language for data quality tests.
- If your team requires automated documentation for each set of validation results to simplify data quality processes and preserve institutional knowledge about data.
Avoid when
- If your project is not in Python or if you are working with Python versions earlier than 3.10 or later than 3.13 without enabling experimental support.
- When your team prefers a more manual approach to data quality testing and documentation, as GX Core emphasizes automated and collaborative processes.
Observed Sep 18, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts
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Maintenance and security
Full trust report- Maintenance
- Very active (0d since push)
- As of Sep 18, 2026
- Provenance
- Not a fork · Organization account
- As of Sep 18, 2026
- Security (OSV)
- 78 low (78 low)
- As of Sep 18, 2026
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Install
pip install great_expectationsSimilar tools
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Overview
GX Core provides tools for data quality testing and documentation, enabling teams to maintain high standards of data integrity through expressive unit tests and automated documentation.
Capability facts
- Languages
- python
Source: github.language+pyproject.toml · Sep 18, 2026
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Compatibility
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Source: README excerpt (regex_v1, Sep 18, 2026)
GX Core supports Python `3.10` through `3.13`.Source link
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README
<img align="right" src="./docs/docusaurus/static/img/gx mark 160.png" About GX Core GX Core combines the collective wisdom of thousands of community members with a proven track record in data quality deployments worldwide, wrapped into a super simple package for data teams. Its p...
For agents
This page has a .md twin and JSON over the API.