Lux 0.2.3

The lux-api v0.2.3 release contains major feature additions and bug fixes. This release is associated with lux-widget v0.1.4.

New Features

• Ability to override the inferred data type explicitly via df.set_data_type (#215)
• Support for matplotlib renderer via lux.config.plotting_backend='matplotlib'(#198)
• Support for metadata propagation across LuxGroupby objects (#260)
• Added conda recipe for conda-forge feedstock (#264)
• New info toggle box describing each action via long-description (#244)

Refactor & Bug Fixes

• Performance optimizations (#219)
  • Remove sampling in datetime detection
  • Changed spearman's r to pearson's r for interestingness
• Improvements on data types
  • Improved ID detection with regular interval checking (#234)
  • Temporal type detection bug for numerical attributes (#232)
  • Consolidate and refactor data type lookup (#231)
• Changes and additions to lux.config:
  • Dev parameters for Pandas Fallback (#233)
  • Added config for changing heatmap bin size
  • Changed plot_config to plotting_style (#239,#246)
• Added recommendation property to LuxSeries (#266)
• Added axis name to unamed Series (#263)

Documentation

• New data type docs page (#252)
• Added table of contents for config page (#248)
• Register custom action documentation fix (#256)

Contributors

We thank the following users who have contributed to this release: @Anupam-B, @caitlynachen, @cjachekang, @dorisjlee, @jerrysong1324, @jinimukh, @micahtyong, @Priyansdesai, @thyneb19, @westernguy2.