Release v0.36.0

[chukarsten]

v0.36.0 Oct. 27, 2021

Enhancements

• Added LIME as an algorithm option for explain_predictions and explain_predictions_best_worst Add LIME explainability #2905
• Standardized data check messages and added default "rows" and "columns" to data check message details dictionary Standardize data check messages by adding default "rows" and "columns" metadata #2869
• Added rows_of_interest to pipeline utils Find rows near the decision boundary #2908
• Added support for woodwork version 0.8.2 Support Woodwork 0.8.2 #2909
• Enhanced the DateTimeFeaturizer to handle NaNs in date features Support Woodwork 0.8.2 #2909
• Added support for woodwork logical types PostalCode, SubRegionCode, and CountryCode in model understanding tools Add support for PostalCode, SubRegionCode, CountryCode logical types #2946
• Added Vowpal Wabbit regressor and classifiers Add Vowpal Wabbit estimators #2846

Fixes

• Fixed bug where partial dependence was not respecting the ww schema Preserve ww schema in partial dependence #2929
• Fixed calculate_permutation_importance for datetimes on StandardScaler fix Permutation Importance error on standard scaler #2938
• Fixed SelectColumns to only select available features for feature selection in DefaultAlgorithm Select available columns in Select Columns Transformer #2944
• Fixed DropColumns component not receiving parameters in DefaultAlgorithm Add Drop Columns Transformer pipeline parameters for DefaultAlgorithm #2945
• Fixed bug where trained binary thresholds were not being returned by get_pipeline or clone Maintain pipeline threshold when returning searched pipelines #2948
• Fixed bug where Oversampler selected ww logical categorical instead of ww semantic category Add support for PostalCode, SubRegionCode, CountryCode logical types #2946

Changes

• Changed make_pipeline function to place the DateTimeFeaturizer prior to the Imputer so that NaN dates can be imputed Support Woodwork 0.8.2 #2909
• Refactored OutliersDataCheck and HighlyNullDataCheck to add more descriptive metadata Updating Data Checks to support Data Health #2907

Documentation Changes

• Added back Future Release section to release notes Add future release section to release notes #2927
• Updated CI to run doctest (docstring tests) and apply necessary fixes to docstrings Update CI to run doctest (docstring tests) and apply necessary fixes to docstrings #2933
• Added documentation for BinaryClassificationPipeline thresholding Add documentation for Binary Classification Threshold Tuning #2937

Testing Changes

• Fixed dependency checker to catch full names of packages Fix deps-checker regex to gather full names #2930
• Refactored build_conda_pkg to work from a local recipe Do build_conda_pkg from local recipe #2925

Breaking Changes

• Standardized data check messages and added default "rows" and "columns" to data check message details dictionary. This may change the number of messages returned from a data check. Standardize data check messages by adding default "rows" and "columns" metadata #2869

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Codecov Report

Merging #2974 (91fdeb0) into main (6b84d6d) will not change coverage.
The diff coverage is 100.0%.

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