Tethne 0.5.0-dev: development snapshot July 1, 2014

This is a development snapshot only, and is not ready for alpha release. Much work still needed on documentation, and a few more things to implement for analysis and visualization.

Tethne: experimental release v0.4.2-alpha

Changes from v0.4.1-alpha

• Added MALLET tutorial, updated geocoding tutorial.
• Added writers.corpora submodule for generating corpora for MALLET topic modeling, based on JSTOR DfR.
• Bugfixes

v0.4.1-alpha

bugfixes

Tethne: experimental release v0.4.0-alpha

Changes from v0.3.1-alpha

• Continued development of Flask-based web application.
• --local flag in CLI looks for needed libraries in local directory.
• Documentation rebuild, including new tutorials.
• Added services subpackage with geocode module.
• networks.authors.coauthors method has new geocode option, that uses Google's geocoder to parse institution names.
• Added new network, networks.authors.institutions, based on coauthorship and institutional affiliations.
• Switched to custom TethneGraphMLWriter class (based on NetworkX's GraphMLWriter) that uses attribute names rather than generic IDs for attribute keys (avoids import bug in Gephi).
• Various bugfixes and performance enhancements (e.g. coauthors runs much faster now).

Tethne: experimental release v0.3.1-alpha

Changes from v0.3.0-alpha:

• Fixes in how WoS reader handles author names (to be checked in DfR next iteration).
• Fixes in formatting of institution names; now stores only first name and location of institution.
• Added attachment probability function for time-sliced GraphCollections in tethne.analyze

Tethne: experimental release v0.3.0-alpha

Tethne is still under active development. Here are a few highlights of what we've been working on recently:

• Tethne can be utilized as a Python library, or via a command-line interface.
• Support for JSTOR Data-for-Research bibliographic data.
• Some support for output of MALLET topic modeling.
• Writers for both static and dynamic networks.
• Updated documentation.