v0.3.1

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0.3.1 (10-16-2024)

Bugs

• Fixed bug in batch updates resulting in incorrect chunked arrays from columns. Updated record batches to ensure casting to the incoming schema is applied correctly.

New Features

• Introduced capability to delete columns.
• Added new data generation methods.
• Implemented new benchmarks for performance evaluation.
• Added utility functions for matplotlib.
• Included benchmark scripts for SQLite, MongoDB, and ParquetDB.
• Enabled rebuilding of nested tables from a flattened structure in the read method.

Documentation Updates

• Updated the README to include a section for benchmark overview.
• Improved HTML for embedding PDFs in the README.
• Updated CHANGELOG.md and _version.py for the new release.

Maintenance

• Corrected default normalize_kwargs.
• Optimized the update table method for a 5x speed increase.
• Moved default normalization parameters to config.yml.
• Renamed directory to benchmarks and changed PDF files to PNG format.
• Updated development dependencies.

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