v1.0.0

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GUIDE: Transitioning to Featuretools Version 1.0

v1.0.0 Oct 12, 2021

• Enhancements
  • Add support for creating EntitySets from Woodwork DataTables (Integrate Woodwork #1277)
  • Add EntitySet.__deepcopy__ that retains Woodwork typing information (Implement deep copy on EntitySet to retain Woodwork typing info #1465)
  • Add EntitySet.__getstate__ and EntitySet.__setstate__ to preserve typing when pickling (Preserve EntitySet Woodwork schemas on pickling #1581)
  • Returned feature matrix has woodwork typing information (Calculate feature matrix returns woodwork dataframe #1664)
• Fixes
  • Fix DFSTransformer Documentation for Featuretools 1.0 (Fix DFSTransformer Documentation #1605)
  • Fix calculate_feature_matrix time type check and encode_features for synthesis tests (Synthesis test fixes #1580)
  • Revert reordering of categories in Equal and NotEqual primitives (Revert changes to Equal and NotEqual primitives #1640)
  • Fix bug in EntitySet.add_relationship that caused foreign_key tag to be lost (Fix foreign_key tag bug #1675)
  • Update DFS to not build features on last time index columns in dataframes (Update DFS to not build features on last time index columns #1695)
• Changes
  • Remove add_interesting_values from Entity (Remove add interesting values from Entity #1269)
  • Move set_secondary_time_index method from Entity to EntitySet (Move set_secondary_time_index to EntitySet #1280)
  • Refactor Relationship creation process (Refactor Relationship Creation #1370)
  • Replaced Entity.update_data with EntitySet.update_dataframe (Move update_data method from Entity to EntitySet #1398)
  • Move validation check for uniform time index to EntitySet (Move time type check #1400)
  • Replace Entity objects in EntitySet with Woodwork dataframes (Replace Entity with Woodwork DataFrame #1405)
  • Refactor EntitySet.plot to work with Woodwork dataframes (Update EntitySet.plot to use Woodwork #1468)
  • Move last_time_index to be a column on the DataFrame (Store last time index as column on DataFrame #1456)
  • Update serialization/deserialization to work with Woodwork (WW/FT Serialization Updates #1452)
  • Refactor EntitySet.query_by_values to work with Woodwork dataframes (Update query_by_values for Woodwork Integration #1467)
  • Replace list_variable_types with list_logical_types (Replace list_variable_types with list_logical_types #1477)
  • Allow deep EntitySet equality check (Allow deep equality check on EntitySet #1480)
  • Update EntitySet.concat to work with Woodwork DataFrames (Update EntitySet.concat to use Woodwork #1490)
  • Add function to list semantic tags (Add function to list semantic tags #1486)
  • Initialize Woodwork on feature matrix in remove_highly_correlated_features if necessary (Update Feature Selection Page with Woodwork Dataframe #1618)
  • Remove categorical-encoding as an add-on library (will be added back later) (Remove categorical encoding library and CI test #1632)
  • Remove autonormalize as an add-on library (will be added back later) (Remove autonormalize add-on library and CI test #1636)
  • Remove tsfresh, nlp_primitives, sklearn_transformer as an add-on library (will be added back later) (Remove tsfresh, nlp_primitives, sklearn_transformer add-on library and CI test #1638)
  • Update input and return types for CumCount primitive (Update CumCount primitive #1651)
  • Standardize imports of Woodwork (Standardize imports for Woodwork in codebase #1526)
  • Rename target entity to target dataframe (Rename target entity to target dataframe #1506)
  • Replace entity_from_dataframe with add_dataframe (Replace entity_from_dataframe with add_dataframe #1504)
  • Create features from Woodwork columns (Add reference to entity set in Woodwork columns #1582)
  • Move default variable description logic to generate_description (Move default variable description logic to generate_description #1403)
  • Update Woodwork to version 0.4.0 with LogicalType.transform and LogicalType instances (Use woodwork 0.4.0 #1451)
  • Update Woodwork to version 0.4.1 with Ordinal order values and whitespace serialization fix (Bump min Woodwork version #1478)
  • Use ColumnSchema for primitive input and return types (Primitives use Woodwork ColumnSchema for input types and return type #1411)
  • Update features to use Woodwork and remove Entity and Variable classes (Woodwork Integration - Features #1501)
  • Re-add make_index functionality to EntitySet (Add make_index functionality to Featuretools #1507)
  • Use ColumnSchema in DFS primitive matching (Update DFS primitive matching to use ColumnSchema #1523)
  • Updates from Featuretools v0.26.0 (Updates from featuretools v0.26.0 #1539)
  • Leverage Woodwork better in add_interesting_values (Refactor add_interesting_values to leverage Woodwork #1550)
  • Update calculate_feature_matrix to use Woodwork (Update calculate feature matrix to work with Woodwork #1533)
  • Update Woodwork to version 0.6.0 with changed categorical inference (Updates for WW 0.6.0 and fix other failing tests #1597)
  • Update nlp-primitives requirement for Featuretools 1.0 (Update nlp-primitives requirement #1609)
  • Remove remaining references to Entity and Variable in code (Remove more references to entity, entities, variable, var #1612)
  • Update Woodwork to version 0.7.1 with changed initialization (Update to use Woodwork 0.7.1 #1648)
  • Removes outdated workaround code related to a since-resolved pandas issue (Remove old categorical code #1677)
  • Remove unused _dataframes_equal and camel_to_snake functions (Remove unused utility functions #1683)
  • Update Woodwork to version 0.8.0 for improved performance (Update WW version to 0.8.0 #1689)
  • Remove redundant typecasting in encode_features (Encode features - remove typecasting loop now handled by ww #1694)
  • Speed up encode_features if not inplace, some space cost (Encode Features - prefer runtime over space if not inplace #1699)
  • Clean up comments and commented out code (Review comments and commented code and clean up #1701)
  • Update Woodwork to version 0.8.1 for improved performance (Bump Woodwork min version to 0.8.1 #1702)
• Documentation Changes
  • Add a Woodwork Typing in Featuretools guide (Add Woodwork Typing Guide #1589)
  • Add a resource guide for transitioning to Featuretools 1.0 (Add Version 1.0 Transition Guide #1627)
  • Update using_entitysets page to use Woodwork (Update doc page on using entity sets with Woodwork #1532)
  • Update FAQ page to use Woodwork integration (Update FAQ with Woodwork #1649)
  • Update DFS page to be Jupyter notebook and use Woodwork integration (Update DFS page to use Woodwork  #1557)
  • Update Feature Primitives page to be Jupyter notebook and use Woodwork integration (Update Feature Primitives page to use woodwork #1556)
  • Update Handling Time page to be Jupyter notebook and use Woodwork integration (Update handling time guide to use Woodwork #1552)
  • Update Advanced Custom Primitives page to be Jupyter notebook and use Woodwork integration (Update advanced custom primitives guide to use Woodwork #1587)
  • Update Deployment page to use Woodwork integration (Update Deployment docs page #1588)
  • Update Using Dask EntitySets page to be Jupyter notebook and use Woodwork integration (Update Using Dask EntitySets Guide #1590)
  • Update Specifying Primitive Options page to be Jupyter notebook and use Woodwork integration (Update Specifying Primitive Options guide for Woodwork #1593)
  • Update API Reference to match Featuretools 1.0 API (Update api reference to match new api #1600)
  • Update Index page to be Jupyter notebook and use Woodwork integration (Update index doc to use Woodwork #1602)
  • Update Feature Descriptions page to be Jupyter notebook and use Woodwork integration (Update feature description guide to use Woodwork #1603)
  • Update Using Koalas EntitySets page to be Jupyter notebook and use Woodwork integration (Update Koalas Guide to use Woodwork #1604)
  • Update Glossary to use Woodwork integration (Update Glossary with Woodwork terms #1608)
  • Update Tuning DFS page to be Jupyter notebook and use Woodwork integration (Update tuning dfs guide to use Woodwork #1610)
  • Fix small formatting issues in Documentation (Fix small formatting issues around Woodwork docs #1607)
  • Remove Variables page and more references to variables (Remove Variable Types page from docs #1629)
  • Update Feature Selection page to use Woodwork integration (Update Feature Selection Page with Woodwork Dataframe #1618)
  • Update Improving Performance page to be Jupyter notebook and use Woodwork integration (Update Improving Performance Guide #1591)
  • Fix typos in transition guide (Fix typos in transition guide #1672)
  • Update installation instructions for 1.0.0rc1 announcement in docs (Remove mention of github now that RC is on pip #1707, :pr:1708, :pr:1713, :pr:1716)
  • Fixed broken link for Demo notebook in README.md (Updated broken link in README for notebook demo #1728)
  • Update contributing.md to improve instructions for external contributors (Update contributing.md #1723)
  • Manually revert changes made by :pr:1677 and :pr:1679. The related bug in pandas still exists. (Add pandas workaround back in #1731)
• Testing Changes
  • Remove entity tests (Remove entity tests #1521)
  • Fix broken EntitySet tests (Fix broken EntitySet tests #1548)
  • Fix broken primitive tests (Fix remaining broken primitive tests #1568)
  • Added Jupyter notebook cleaner to the linters (Add notebook cleaner #1719)
  • Update reviewers for minimum and latest dependency checkers (Update dependency checker reviewers #1715)
  • Full coverage for EntitySet.eq method (Full coverage for EntitySet.__eq__ method #1725)
  • Add tests to verify all primitives can be initialized without parameter values (Add primitive init tests #1726)

[rwedge]

I think we should go ahead and delete the stable branch before publishing the release

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #1736 (3a2de0c) into main (3ff8349) will decrease coverage by 0.06%.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

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...computational_backends/calculate_feature_matrix.py	98.57% <0.00%> (-0.86%)	⬇️
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