v0.30.0

v0.30.0 Aug. 4, 2021

Enhancements

• Added LogTransformer and TargetDistributionDataCheck #2487
• Issue a warning to users when a pipeline parameter passed in isn't used in the pipeline #2564
• Added Gini coefficient as an objective #2544
• Added repr to ComponentGraph #2565
• Added components to extract features from URL and EmailAddress Logical Types #2550
• Added support for NaN values in TextFeaturizer #2532
• Added SelectByType transformer #2531
• Added separate thresholds for percent null rows and columns in HighlyNullDataCheck #2562
• Added support for NaN natural language values #2577

Fixes

• Raised error message for types URL, NaturalLanguage, and EmailAddress in partial_dependence #2573

Changes

• Updated PipelineBase implementation for creating pipelines from a list of components #2549
• Moved get_hyperparameter_ranges to PipelineBase class from automl/utils module #2546
• Renamed ComponentGraph's get_parents to get_inputs #2540
• Removed ComponentGraph.linearized_component_graph and ComponentGraph.from_list #2556
• Updated ComponentGraph to enforce requiring .x and .y inputs for each component in the graph #2563

Documentation Changes

• Added documentation for DaskEngine and CFEngine parallel engines #2560
• Improved detail of TextFeaturizer docstring and tutorial #2568

Testing Changes

• Added test that makes sure split_data does not shuffle for time series problems #2552

Breaking Changes

• Moved get_hyperparameter_ranges to PipelineBase class from automl/utils module #2546
• Renamed ComponentGraph's get_parents to get_inputs #2540
• Removed ComponentGraph.linearized_component_graph and ComponentGraph.from_list #2556
• Updated ComponentGraph to enforce requiring .x and .y inputs for each component in the graph #2563