changelog.rst

Changelog

Future Release

• Enhancements
• Fixes

• Changes

  • Remove python 2.7 support from serialize.py (812)

• Documentation Changes

  • remove python 2.7 support and add 3.7 in install.rst (805)
  • Fix import error in docs (803)
  • Fix release title formatting in changelog (806)

• Testing Changes

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: rwedge, systemshift

v0.12.0 Oct 31, 2019

• Enhancements

  • Added First primitive (770)
  • Added Entropy aggregation primitive (779)
  • Allow custom naming for multi-output primitives (780)

• Fixes

  • Prevents user from removing base entity time index using additional_variables (768)
  • Fixes error when a multioutput primitive was supplied to dfs as a groupby trans primitive (786)

• Changes

  • Drop Python 2 support (759)
  • Add unit parameter to AvgTimeBetween (771)
  • Require Pandas 0.24.1 or higher (787)

• Documentation Changes

  • Update featuretools slack link (765)
  • Set up repo to use Read the Docs (776)
  • Add First primitive to API reference docs (782)

• Testing Changes

  • CircleCI fixes (774)
  • Disable PIP progress bars (775)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: ablacke-ayx, BoopBoopBeepBoop, jeffzi, kmax12, rwedge, thehomebrewnerd, twdobson

v0.11.0 Sep 30, 2019

Warning

The next non-bugfix release of Featuretools will not support Python 2

• Enhancements

  • Improve how files are copied and written (721)
  • Add number of rows to graph in entityset.plot (727)
  • Added support for pandas DateOffsets in DFS and Timedelta (732)
  • Enable feature-specific top_n value using a dictionary in encode_features (735)
  • Added progress_callback parameter to dfs() and calculate_feature_matrix() (739, 745)
  • Enable specifying primitives on a per column or per entity basis (748)

• Fixes

  • Fixed entity set deserialization (720)
  • Added error message when DateTimeIndex is a variable but not set as the time_index (723)
  • Fixed CumCount and other group-by transform primitives that take ID as input (733, 754)
  • Fix progress bar undercounting (743)
  • Updated training_window error assertion to only check against observations (728)
  • Don't delete the whole destination folder while saving entityset (717)

• Changes

  • Raise warning and not error on schema version mismatch (718)
  • Change feature calculation to return in order of instance ids provided (676)
  • Removed time remaining from displayed progress bar in dfs() and calculate_feature_matrix() (739)
  • Raise warning in normalize_entity() when time_index of base_entity has an invalid type (749)
  • Remove toolz as a direct dependency (755)
  • Allow boolean variable types to be used in the Multiply primitive (756)

• Documentation Changes

  • Updated URL for Compose (716)

• Testing Changes

  • Update dependencies (738, 741, 747)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: angela97lin, chidauri, christopherbunn, frances-h, jeff-hernandez, kmax12, MarcoGorelli, rwedge, thehomebrewnerd

Breaking Changes

• Feature calculations will return in the order of instance ids provided instead of the order of time points instances are calculated at.

v0.10.1 Aug 25, 2019

• Fixes

  • Fix serialized LatLong data being loaded as strings (712)

• Documentation Changes

  • Fixed FAQ cell output (710)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: gsheni, rwedge

v0.10.0 Aug 19, 2019

Warning

The next non-bugfix release of Featuretools will not support Python 2

• Enhancements

  • Give more frequent progress bar updates and update chunk size behavior (631, 696)
  • Added drop_first as param in encode_features (647)
  • Added support for stacking multi-output primitives (679)
  • Generate transform features of direct features (623)
  • Added serializing and deserializing from S3 and deserializing from URLs (685)
  • Added nlp_primitives as an add-on library (704)
  • Added AutoNormalize to Featuretools plugins (699)
  • Added functionality for relative units (month/year) in Timedelta (692)
  • Added categorical-encoding as an add-on library (700)

• Fixes

  • Fix performance regression in DFS (637)
  • Fix deserialization of feature relationship path (665)
  • Set index after adding ancestor relationship variables (668)
  • Fix user-supplied variable_types modification in Entity init (675)
  • Don't calculate dependencies of unnecessary features (667)
  • Prevent normalize entity's new entity having same index as base entity (681)
  • Update variable type inference to better check for string values (683)

• Changes

  • Moved dask, distributed imports (634)

• Documentation Changes

  • Miscellaneous changes (641, 658)
  • Modified doc_string of top_n in encoding (648)
  • Hyperlinked ComposeML (653)
  • Added FAQ (620, 677)
  • Fixed FAQ question with multiple question marks (673)

• Testing Changes

  • Add master, and release tests for premium primitives (660, 669)
  • Miscellaneous changes (672, 674)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: alexjwang, allisonportis, ayushpatidar, CJStadler, ctduffy, gsheni, jeff-hernandez, jeremyliweishih, kmax12, rwedge, zhxt95,

v0.9.1 July 3, 2019

• Enhancements

  • Speedup groupby transform calculations (609)
  • Generate features along all paths when there are multiple paths between entities (600, 608)

• Fixes

  • Select columns of dataframe using a list (615)
  • Change type of features calculated on Index features to Categorical (602)
  • Filter dataframes through forward relationships (625)
  • Specify Dask version in requirements for python 2 (627)
  • Keep dataframe sorted by time during feature calculation (626)
  • Fix bug in encode_features that created duplicate columns of features with multiple outputs (622)

• Changes

  • Remove unused variance_selection.py file (613)
  • Remove Timedelta data param (619)
  • Remove DaysSince primitive (628)

• Documentation Changes

  • Add installation instructions for add-on libraries (617)
  • Clarification of Multi Output Feature Creation (638)
  • Miscellaneous changes (632, 639)

• Testing Changes

  • Miscellaneous changes (595, 612)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: CJStadler, kmax12, rwedge, gsheni, kkleidal, ctduffy

v0.9.0 June 19, 2019

• Enhancements

  • Add unit parameter to timesince primitives (558)
  • Add ability to install optional add on libraries (551)
  • Load and save features from open files and strings (566)
  • Support custom variable types (571)
  • Support entitysets which have multiple paths between two entities (572, 544)
  • Added show_info function, more output information added to CLI featuretools info (525)

• Fixes

  • Normalize_entity specifies error when 'make_time_index' is an invalid string (550)
  • Schema version added for entityset serialization (586)
  • Renamed features have names correctly serialized (585)
  • Improved error message for index/time_index being the same column in normalize_entity and entity_from_dataframe (583)
  • Removed all mentions of allow_where (587, 588)
  • Removed unused variable in normalize entity (589)
  • Change time since return type to numeric (606)

• Changes

  • Refactor get_pandas_data_slice to take single entity (547)
  • Updates TimeSincePrevious and Diff Primitives (561)
  • Remove unecessary time_last variable (546)

• Documentation Changes

  • Add Featuretools Enterprise to documentation (563)
  • Miscellaneous changes (552, 573, 577, 599)

• Testing Changes

  • Miscellaneous changes (559, 569, 570, 574, 584, 590)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: alexjwang, allisonportis, CJStadler, ctduffy, gsheni, kmax12, rwedge

v0.8.0 May 17, 2019

• Rename NUnique to NumUnique (510)
• Serialize features as JSON (532)
• Drop all variables at once in normalize_entity (533)
• Remove unnecessary sorting from normalize_entity (535)
• Features cache their names (536)
• Only calculate features for instances before cutoff (523)
• Remove all relative imports (530)
• Added FullName Variable Type (506)
• Add error message when target entity does not exist (520)
• New demo links (542)
• Remove duplicate features check in DFS (538)
• featuretools_primitives entry point expects list of primitive classes (529)
• Update ALL_VARIABLE_TYPES list (526)
• More Informative N Jobs Prints and Warnings (511)
• Update sklearn version requirements (541)
• Update Makefile (519)
• Remove unused parameter in Entity._handle_time (524)
• Remove build_ext code from setup.py (513)
• Documentation updates (512, 514, 515, 521, 522, 527, 545)
• Testing updates (509, 516, 517, 539)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: bphi, CharlesBradshaw, CJStadler, glentennis, gsheni, kmax12, rwedge

Breaking Changes

• NUnique has been renamed to NumUnique.

  Previous behavior

  from featuretools.primitives import NUnique

  New behavior

  from featuretools.primitives import NumUnique

v0.7.1 Apr 24, 2019

• Automatically generate feature name for controllable primitives (481)
• Primitive docstring updates (489, 492, 494, 495)
• Change primitive functions that returned strings to return functions (499)
• CLI customizable via entrypoints (493)
• Improve calculation of aggregation features on grandchildren (479)
• Refactor entrypoints to use decorator (483)
• Include doctests in testing suite (491)
• Documentation updates (490)
• Update how standard primitives are imported internally (482)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: bukosabino, CharlesBradshaw, glentennis, gsheni, jeff-hernandez, kmax12, minkvsky, rwedge, thehomebrewnerd

v0.7.0 Mar 29, 2019

• Improve Entity Set Serialization (361)
• Support calling a primitive instance's function directly (461, 468)
• Support other libraries extending featuretools functionality via entrypoints (452)
• Remove featuretools install command (475)
• Add GroupByTransformFeature (455, 472, 476)
• Update Haversine Primitive (435, 462)
• Add commutative argument to SubtractNumeric and DivideNumeric primitives (457)
• Add FilePath variable_type (470)
• Add PhoneNumber, DateOfBirth, URL variable types (447)
• Generalize infer_variable_type, convert_variable_data and convert_all_variable_data methods (423)
• Documentation updates (438, 446, 458, 469)
• Testing updates (440, 444, 445, 459)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: bukosabino, CharlesBradshaw, ColCarroll, glentennis, grayskripko, gsheni, jeff-hernandez, jrkinley, kmax12, RogerTangos, rwedge

Breaking Changes

• ft.dfs now has a groupby_trans_primitives parameter that DFS uses to automatically construct features that group by an ID column and then apply a transform primitive to search group. This change applies to the following primitives: CumSum, CumCount, CumMean, CumMin, and CumMax.

  Previous behavior

  ft.dfs(entityset=es,
         target_entity='customers',
         trans_primitives=["cum_mean"])

  New behavior

  ft.dfs(entityset=es,
         target_entity='customers',
         groupby_trans_primitives=["cum_mean"])

• Related to the above change, cumulative transform features are now defined using a new feature class, GroupByTransformFeature.

  Previous behavior

  ft.Feature([base_feature, groupby_feature], primitive=CumulativePrimitive)

  New behavior

  ft.Feature(base_feature, groupby=groupby_feature, primitive=CumulativePrimitive)

v0.6.1 Feb 15, 2019

• Cumulative primitives (410)
• Entity.query_by_values now preserves row order of underlying data (428)
• Implementing Country Code and Sub Region Codes as variable types (430)
• Added IPAddress and EmailAddress variable types (426)
• Install data and dependencies (403)
• Add TimeSinceFirst, fix TimeSinceLast (388)
• Allow user to pass in desired feature return types (372)
• Add new configuration object (401)
• Replace NUnique get_function (434)
• _calculate_idenity_features now only returns the features asked for, instead of the entire entity (429)
• Primitive function name uniqueness (424)
• Update NumCharacters and NumWords primitives (419)
• Removed Variable.dtype (416, 433)
• Change to zipcode rep, str for pandas (418)
• Remove pandas version upper bound (408)
• Make S3 dependencies optional (404)
• Check that agg_primitives and trans_primitives are right primitive type (397)
• Mean primitive changes (395)
• Fix transform stacking on multi-output aggregation (394)
• Fix list_primitives (391)
• Handle graphviz dependency (389, 396, 398)
• Testing updates (402, 417, 433)
• Documentation updates (400, 409, 415, 417, 420, 421, 422, 431)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: CharlesBradshaw, csala, floscha, gsheni, jxwolstenholme, kmax12, RogerTangos, rwedge

v0.6.0 Jan 30, 2018

• Primitive refactor (364)
• Mean ignore NaNs (379)
• Plotting entitysets (382)
• Add seed features later in DFS process (357)
• Multiple output column features (376)
• Add ZipCode Variable Type (367)
• Add primitive.get_filepath and example of primitive loading data from external files (380)
• Transform primitives take series as input (385)
• Update dependency requirements (378, 383, 386)
• Add modulo to override tests (384)
• Update documentation (368, 377)
• Update README.md (366, 373)
• Update CI tests (359, 360, 375)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: floscha, gsheni, kmax12, RogerTangos, rwedge

v0.5.1 Dec 17, 2018

• Add missing dependencies (353)
• Move comment to note in documentation (352)

v0.5.0 Dec 17, 2018

• Add specific error for duplicate additional/copy_variables in normalize_entity (348)
• Removed EntitySet._import_from_dataframe (346)
• Removed time_index_reduce parameter (344)
• Allow installation of additional primitives (326)
• Fix DatetimeIndex variable conversion (342)
• Update Sklearn DFS Transformer (343)
• Clean up entity creation logic (336)
• remove casting to list in transform feature calculation (330)
• Fix sklearn wrapper (335)
• Add readme to pypi
• Update conda docs after move to conda-forge (334)
• Add wrapper for scikit-learn Pipelines (323)
• Remove parse_date_cols parameter from EntitySet._import_from_dataframe (333)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: bukosabino, georgewambold, gsheni, jeff-hernandez, kmax12, and rwedge.

v0.4.1 Nov 29, 2018

• Resolve bug preventing using first column as index by default (308)
• Handle return type when creating features from Id variables (318)
• Make id an optional parameter of EntitySet constructor (324)
• Handle primitives with same function being applied to same column (321)
• Update requirements (328)
• Clean up DFS arguments (319)
• Clean up Pandas Backend (302)
• Update properties of cumulative transform primitives (320)
• Feature stability between versions documentation (316)
• Add download count to GitHub readme (310)
• Fixed #297 update tests to check error strings (303)
• Remove usage of fixtures in agg primitive tests (325)

v0.4.0 Oct 31, 2018

• Remove ft.utils.gen_utils.getsize and make pympler a test requirement (299)
• Update requirements.txt (298)
• Refactor EntitySet.find_path(...) (295)
• Clean up unused methods (293)
• Remove unused parents property of Entity (283)
• Removed relationships parameter (284)
• Improve time index validation (285)
• Encode features with "unknown" class in categorical (287)
• Allow where clauses on direct features in Deep Feature Synthesis (279)
• Change to fullargsspec (288)
• Parallel verbose fixes (282)
• Update tests for python 3.7 (277)
• Check duplicate rows cutoff times (276)
• Load retail demo data using compressed file (271)

v0.3.1 Sept 28, 2018

• Handling time rewrite (245)
• Update deep_feature_synthesis.py (249)
• Handling return type when creating features from DatetimeTimeIndex (266)
• Update retail.py (259)
• Improve Consistency of Transform Primitives (236)
• Update demo docstrings (268)
• Handle non-string column names (255)
• Clean up merging of aggregation primitives (250)
• Add tests for Entity methods (262)
• Handle no child data when calculating aggregation features with multiple arguments (264)
• Add is_string utils function (260)
• Update python versions to match docker container (261)
• Handle where clause when no child data (258)
• No longer cache demo csvs, remove config file (257)
• Avoid stacking "expanding" primitives (238)
• Use randomly generated names in retail csv (233)
• Update README.md (243)

v0.3.0 Aug 27, 2018

• Improve performance of all feature calculations (224)
• Update agg primitives to use more efficient functions (215)
• Optimize metadata calculation (229)
• More robust handling when no data at a cutoff time (234)
• Workaround categorical merge (231)
• Switch which CSV is associated with which variable (228)
• Remove unused kwargs from query_by_values, filter_and_sort (225)
• Remove convert_links_to_integers (219)
• Add conda install instructions (223, 227)
• Add example of using Dask to parallelize to docs (221)

v0.2.2 Aug 20, 2018

• Remove unnecessary check no related instances call and refactor (209)
• Improve memory usage through support for pandas categorical types (196)
• Bump minimum pandas version from 0.20.3 to 0.23.0 (216)
• Better parallel memory warnings (208, 214)
• Update demo datasets (187, 201, 207)
• Make primitive lookup case insensitive (213)
• Use capital name (211)
• Set class name for Min (206)
• Remove variable_types from normalize entity (205)
• Handle parquet serialization with last time index (204)
• Reset index of cutoff times in calculate feature matrix (198)
• Check argument types for .normalize_entity (195)
• Type checking ignore entities. (193)

v0.2.1 July 2, 2018

• Cpu count fix (176)
• Update flight (175)
• Move feature matrix calculation helper functions to separate file (177)

v0.2.0 June 22, 2018

• Multiprocessing (170)
• Handle unicode encoding in repr throughout Featuretools (161)
• Clean up EntitySet class (145)
• Add support for building and uploading conda package (167)
• Parquet serialization (152)
• Remove variable stats (171)
• Make sure index variable comes first (168)
• No last time index update on normalize (169)
• Remove list of times as on option for cutoff_time in calculate_feature_matrix (165)
• Config does error checking to see if it can write to disk (162)

v0.1.21 May 30, 2018

• Support Pandas 0.23.0 (153, 154, 155, 159)
• No EntitySet required in loading/saving features (141)
• Use s3 demo csv with better column names (139)
• more reasonable start parameter (149)
• add issue template (133)
• Improve tests (136, 137, 144, 147)
• Remove unused functions (140, 143, 146)
• Update documentation after recent changes / removals (157)
• Rename demo retail csv file (148)
• Add names for binary (142)
• EntitySet repr to use get_name rather than id (134)
• Ensure config dir is writable (135)

v0.1.20 Apr 13, 2018

• Primitives as strings in DFS parameters (129)
• Integer time index bugfixes (128)
• Add make_temporal_cutoffs utility function (126)
• Show all entities, switch shape display to row/col (124)
• Improved chunking when calculating feature matrices (121)
• fixed num characters nan fix (118)
• modify ignore_variables docstring (117)

v0.1.19 Mar 21, 2018

• More descriptive DFS progress bar (69)
• Convert text variable to string before NumWords (106)
• EntitySet.concat() reindexes relationships (96)
• Keep non-feature columns when encoding feature matrix (111)
• Uses full entity update for dependencies of uses_full_entity features (110)
• Update column names in retail demo (104)
• Handle Transform features that need access to all values of entity (91)

v0.1.18 Feb 27, 2018

• fixes related instances bug (97)
• Adding non-feature columns to calculated feature matrix (78)
• Relax numpy version req (82)
• Remove entity_from_csv, tests, and lint (71)

v0.1.17 Jan 18, 2018

• LatLong type (57)
• Last time index fixes (70)
• Make median agg primitives ignore nans by default (61)
• Remove Python 3.4 support (64)
• Change normalize_entity to update secondary_time_index (59)
• Unpin requirements (53)
• associative -> commutative (56)
• Add Words and Chars primitives (51)

v0.1.16 Dec 19, 2017

• fix EntitySet.combine_variables and standardize encode_features (47)
• Python 3 compatibility (16)

v0.1.15 Dec 18, 2017

• Fix variable type in demo data (37)
• Custom primitive kwarg fix (38)
• Changed order and text of arguments in make_trans_primitive docstring (42)

v0.1.14 November 20, 2017

• Last time index (33)
• Update Scipy version to 1.0.0 (31)

v0.1.13 November 1, 2017

• Add MANIFEST.in (26)

v0.1.11 October 31, 2017

• Package linting (7)
• Custom primitive creation functions (13)
• Split requirements to separate files and pin to latest versions (15)
• Select low information features (18)
• Fix docs typos (19)
• Fixed Diff primitive for rare nan case (21)
• added some mising doc strings (23)
• Trend fix (22)
• Remove as_dir=False option from EntitySet.to_pickle() (20)
• Entity Normalization Preserves Types of Copy & Additional Variables (25)

v0.1.10 October 12, 2017

• NumTrue primitive added and docstring of other primitives updated (11)
• fixed hash issue with same base features (8)
• Head fix (9)
• Fix training window (10)
• Add associative attribute to primitives (3)
• Add status badges, fix license in setup.py (1)
• fixed head printout and flight demo index (2)

v0.1.9 September 8, 2017

• Documentation improvements
• New featuretools.demo.load_mock_customer function

v0.1.8 September 1, 2017

• Bug fixes
• Added Percentile transform primitive

v0.1.7 August 17, 2017

• Performance improvements for approximate in calculate_feature_matrix and dfs
• Added Week transform primitive

v0.1.6 July 26, 2017

• Added load_features and save_features to persist and reload features
• Added save_progress argument to calculate_feature_matrix
• Added approximate parameter to calculate_feature_matrix and dfs
• Added load_flight to ft.demo

v0.1.5 July 11, 2017

• Windows support

v0.1.3 July 10, 2017

• Renamed feature submodule to primitives
• Renamed prediction_entity arguments to target_entity
• Added training_window parameter to calculate_feature_matrix

v0.1.2 July 3rd, 2017

• Initial release