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Column Statistic improvment list after MVP

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A-encoding A-format enhancement feature help wanted
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Description

As we are wrapping up on the dataset level column statistics MVP, there are some high priority todo items:
[ ] Support column stats generation for partial dataset. Currently the dataset will only be generated when all the files in the dataset has column stats written. A naive implementation is just to build the stats from the old fragment file rather than terminate early.
[ ] Expose a Python API from the rust implementation.
[ ] Exposing more stats in the discussion thread #4540

More could be found in the design doc

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Research direction

Start by reading the dataset-level column statistics MVP in pull request #5639 and the design document linked in the issue. Review discussion #4540 for the additional statistics requirements. Done means addressing the listed partial-dataset generation, Python API exposure, and expanded-statistics items.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python, rust
Domain
data
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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