def METHOD_NAME(dbtype):
    """
    Takes a data type as returned by a database call and regularizes it into a
    triplet of the form (human readable datatype, python datatype, default value).
    Parameters
    ----------
    dbtype : str
        A data type, as returned by a database call (ex. 'char').
    Returns
    -------
    response : tuple
        Regularized type tuple of the form (human readable datatype, python datatype, default value).
    For example:
    _parse_type("short")
    ('integer', np.int64, -999)
    """
    dbtype = dbtype.lower()
    return {
        'char': ('string', str, ""),
        'string': ('string', str, ""),
        'datetime': ('string', str, ""),  # TODO: handle datetimes correctly
        'date': ('string', str, ""),  # TODO: handle datetimes correctly
        'double': ('float', np.float64, np.nan),
        'float': ('float', np.float64, np.nan),
        'decimal': ('float', np.float64, np.nan),
        'int': ('integer', np.int64, -999),
        'short': ('integer', np.int64, -999),
        'long': ('integer', np.int64, -999),
        'number': ('integer', np.int64, -999),
        'boolean': ('boolean', bool, None),
        'binary': ('boolean', bool, None),
        'unsignedbyte': ('byte', np.ubyte, -999)
    }.get(dbtype, (dbtype, dbtype, dbtype))