Release v0.30.0

[chukarsten]

v0.30.0 Aug. 3, 2021

Enhancements

• Added LogTransformer and TargetDistributionDataCheck Log transformer data check #2487
• Issue a warning to users when a pipeline parameter passed in isn't used in the pipeline Warn users when pipeline parameters aren't used when initializing pipelines #2564
• Added Gini coefficient as an objective Add gini coefficient as an objective #2544
• Added repr to ComponentGraph Add repr to ComponentGraph and use in PipelineBase #2565
• Added components to extract features from URL and EmailAddress Logical Types Add Components to Create Features from URL and Email Logical Types #2550
• Added support for NaN values in TextFeaturizer Address NaN values in Text Featurizer #2532
• Added SelectByType transformer Add SelectDtypeColumns component #2531
• Added separate thresholds for percent null rows and columns in HighlyNullDataCheck Separate thresholds for pct null rows and columns in HighlyNullDataCheck #2562
• Added support for NaN natural language values Support for NaN types for NLP in AutoMLSearch #2577

Fixes

• Raised error message for types URL, NaturalLanguage, and EmailAddress in partial_dependence Don't allow certain logical types in partial_dependence #2573

Changes

• Updated PipelineBase implementation for creating pipelines from a list of components Remove ComponentGraph.from_list and update PipelineBase impl creating from lists #2549
• Moved get_hyperparameter_ranges to PipelineBase class from automl/utils module Move get_hyperparameter_ranges to PipelineBase class from automl/utils module #2546
• Renamed ComponentGraph's get_parents to get_inputs Rename ComponentGraph's get_parents to get_inputs #2540
• Removed ComponentGraph.linearized_component_graph and ComponentGraph.from_list Remove linearized_component_graph and ComponentGraph.from_list  #2556
• Updated ComponentGraph to enforce requiring .x and .y inputs for each component in the graph Update ComponentGraph to enforce needing .x and .y for each component specified in the graph #2563

Documentation Changes

• Added documentation for DaskEngine and CFEngine parallel engines Parallel automl docs #2560
• Improved detail of TextFeaturizer docstring and tutorial Improve TextFeaturizer Documentation #2568

Testing Changes

• Added test that makes sure split_data does not shuffle for time series problems Test split_data does not shuffle for Time Series #2552

Breaking Changes

• Moved get_hyperparameter_ranges to PipelineBase class from automl/utils module Move get_hyperparameter_ranges to PipelineBase class from automl/utils module #2546
• Renamed ComponentGraph's get_parents to get_inputs Rename ComponentGraph's get_parents to get_inputs #2540
• Removed ComponentGraph.linearized_component_graph and ComponentGraph.from_list Remove linearized_component_graph and ComponentGraph.from_list  #2556
• Updated ComponentGraph to enforce requiring .x and .y inputs for each component in the graph Update ComponentGraph to enforce needing .x and .y for each component specified in the graph #2563

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Codecov Report

Merging #2584 (05f9969) into main (8d6b7ec) will not change coverage.
The diff coverage is 100.0%.

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[angela97lin]

[freddyaboulton]

Thanks @chukarsten !