Tethne version 0.8

Thanks to @guilhermeleobas for improvements to the Web of Science parser! The docs are currently being updated at http://diging.github.io/tethne.

There were lots of little tweaks and improvements. The items below are just a selection of the highlights.

Release Notes - Tethne - Version v0.8-beta

Epic

• [TETHNE-124] - Memory optimization and file streaming

Bug

• [TETHNE-80] - The zotero reader breaks while loading a corpus.
• [TETHNE-81] - Zotero not able to parse unicode characters at some places
• [TETHNE-82] - Cannot read a zotero rdf file. List index out of range error
• [TETHNE-83] - DFR file parsing error (not able to find citations.xml file)
• [TETHNE-85] - Multiple Parsing errors in Zotero Reader.

Story

• [TETHNE-53] - Should be a feature plotting method to set a threshold or to select the top features
• [TETHNE-86] - Added new classes to support articulated content
• [TETHNE-125] - User should be able to load into memory only the fields that they want

Tethne version 0.7.22

• merge() function in tethne.readers now works as expected;
• fixed a bug that prevented read() in tethne.readers.dfr from loading several datasets in the same directory.

Tethne version 0.7.15

• Several bugfixes;
• (re-)Added plotting functionality in tethne.plot subpackage;

Tethne release v0.6.3.3-beta

Addresses a KeyError raised by tethne.writers.corpora.to_documents, see issue #56.

Citable release v0.6.3.2-beta

Paper.authors now returns an empty list when no authors are present, …

Tethne 0.6.3-beta

• Changed the way that DTMModel and LDAModel print topics,
• Changed the way that model.corpus.ldamodel.MALLETLoader handles integer and float values when reading data from MALLET,
• Bugfixes.

Tethne 0.6.2-beta

Mainly bugfixes, cleanup

Tethne: version 0.6.1-beta

Changes from 0.6.0-beta

• Added methods for calculating KL divergence and other distance measures (via SciPy) in analyze.features
• Added methods for creating networks based on distance measures networks.topics.distance
• Added documentation about featuresets and sparse feature vectors
• Updated installation instructions regarding pre-release versions

First beta release!

Get up to speed on this version of Tethne at the project website . Please report bugs (in both the package and the documentation) here.

Changes from v0.5

• Reader for Scopus database
• Major reworking and bugfixes for social models
• Major improvements to HDF5 module
• A host of new tests (now over 260 tests)
• Major improvements to documentation
• Added functionality for Corpus
• Added mutual_information and cooccurrence methods to networks.features

... and more!

Tethne 0.5.1-dev: development snapshot July 18, 2014

This development release includes new functionality for co-citation analysis:

• networks.papers.cocitation was refactored for efficiency;
• Added analyze.corpus, which implements Kleinberg's (2002) hidden markov model for burstness;
• Added methods for calculating and visualizing Chen's (2009) sigma metric.
• Updated the cocitation analysis tutorial.