#DataViz #FeelTheBern #GermanNLP

0.2.2 (2016-05-05)

Changes:

• Added a viz subpackage, with two types of plots (so far):
  • viz.draw_termite_plot(), typically used to evaluate and interpret topic models; conveniently accessible from the tm.TopicModel class
  • viz.draw_semantic_network() for visualizing networks such as those output by representations.network
• Added a "Bernie & Hillary" corpus with 3000 congressional speeches made by Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton since 1996
  • corpora.fetch_bernie_and_hillary() function automatically downloads to and loads from disk this corpus
• Modified data.load_depechemood function, now downloads data from GitHub source if not found on disk
• Removed resources/ directory from GitHub, hence all the downloadin'
• Updated to spaCy v0.100.7
  • German is now supported! although some functionality is English-only
  • added textacy.load_spacy() function for loading spaCy packages, taking advantage of the new spacy.load() API; added a DeprecationWarning for textacy.data.load_spacy_pipeline()
  • proper nouns' and pronouns' .pos_ attributes are now correctly assigned 'PROPN' and 'PRON'; hence, modified regexes_etc.POS_REGEX_PATTERNS['en'] to include 'PROPN'
  • modified spacy_utils.preserve_case() to check for language-agnostic 'PROPN' POS rather than English-specific 'NNP' and 'NNPS' tags
• Added text_utils.clean_terms() function for cleaning up a sequence of single- or multi-word strings by stripping leading/trailing junk chars, handling dangling parens and odd hyphenation, etc.

Bugfixes:

• textstats.readability_stats() now correctly gets the number of words in a doc from its generator function (@gryBox #8)
• removed NLTK dependency, which wasn't actually required
• text_utils.detect_language() now warns via logging rather than a print() statement
• fileio.write_conll() documentation now correctly indicates that the filename param is not optional