EducationalTestingService/skll — pull request #154 by dan-blanchard (2014-10-09 19:29:55+00:00)
Title: Release 0.28.0

This release has some big behind-the-scenes changes. First, we split the `data.py` module up into a sub-package (#147). There is also a new `FeatureSet` class that replaces the old `namedtuple`-based `ExamplesTuple` (#81), so `ExamplesTuple` is now deprecated and will be removed in SKLL 1.0.0.

Speaking of which, we're having an all-day SKLL sprint on the October 17th where we hope to resolve all the remaining issues preventing the 1.0 release.

Other changes include:
- Fixed a bunch of minor problems with loading/writing LibSVM files
- Added file reading/writing progress indicators
- Fixed crash with `generate_predictions` when the model was not trained with `probability` set to True (#144).
- Deprecated `write_feature_file` function in favor of using a `FeatureSetWriter` object.
- Deprecated `load_examples` function in favor of using a `Reader` object.
- Temporarily added replacement version of scikit-learn `DictVectorizer` class until scikit-learn/scikit-learn#3683 version is included in a release. This allows us to make file loading substantially more memory efficient.