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Benjamin Mako Hill 2d1d760142 datasets/: replace add_new_month with layered append workflow
Add add_months.sh and merge_layers.sh implementing a layered append
strategy for incremental dataset updates. Each incremental run appends
new sorted partition files alongside existing ones rather than re-sorting
the full corpus, which is prohibitively slow at this dataset scale.

- dumps_helper.py: sort_and_write gains indir/mode params; new
  merge_layers function collapses accumulated layers via atomic rename
- comments_part2.py, submissions_part2.py: expose --indir/--mode via Fire
- add_months.sh: new layered append script (not yet tested)
- merge_layers.sh: new layer collapse script (not yet tested)
- comments_merge.py, submissions_merge.py: Spark entry points for merge
- add_new_month.sh: deleted (full re-sort each add is redundant with
  build_from_scratch at corpus scale)
- README.md: document three workflows; flag untested sections

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-25 17:59:36 -07:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Build the sorted, partitioned Reddit parquet datasets from scratch.
#
# Wipes the per-source temp directories, processes every RC_* and RS_* dump
# in the raw_data dumps directory through Part 1 (per-file, parallel), then
# runs the Part 2 Spark sort + repartition for both comments and submissions.
#
# Every command below is independently runnable — to debug a single stage,
# copy the line out and run it directly. Run the whole script end-to-end
# only when you trust each step.
#
# Prerequisites:
# - raw .zst dumps already staged in the dumpdir locations (see the
# defaults in dumps_helper.py, or override via --dumpdir)
# - GNU parallel installed
# - start_spark_and_run.sh on PATH (Hyak-provided wrapper)
#
# To add new months to an existing build without rebuilding from scratch,
# use add_months.sh.
set -e
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
TEMP_COMMENTS="/gscratch/comdata/output/temp/reddit_comments.parquet"
TEMP_SUBMISSIONS="/gscratch/comdata/output/temp/reddit_submissions.parquet"
# --- Part 1a: comments ------------------------------------------------------
# wipe any existing comments temp output
rm -rf "$TEMP_COMMENTS"
# generate the per-file parse task list
python3 comments_part1.py gen_task_list
# run all comments parse tasks in parallel
parallel --joblog comments_joblog.txt --results comments_logs < parse_comments_task_list
# --- Part 1b: submissions ---------------------------------------------------
# wipe any existing submissions temp output
rm -rf "$TEMP_SUBMISSIONS"
# generate the per-file parse task list
python3 submissions_part1.py gen_task_list
# run all submissions parse tasks in parallel
parallel --joblog submissions_joblog.txt --results submissions_logs < parse_submissions_task_list
# --- Part 2: spark sort + repartition --------------------------------------
# sort comments and write reddit_comments_by_{subreddit,author}.parquet
start_spark_and_run.sh 1 comments_part2.py
# sort submissions and write reddit_submissions_by_{subreddit,author}.parquet
start_spark_and_run.sh 1 submissions_part2.py