0.5 Goffman

The work for this release was initiated at the Internet Engineering Task Force 116 Hackathon.

• New Notebook: Email Body Named Entity Recognition (#586)
• New Notebook: Extracting the sentiment versus estimated gender of participants on the mailing list. (#594)
• Updates to the README (#583 , #589)
• Change from requests to urllib in mailmain ingest module (#584)
• Replace bin/ scripts with command line interface (#585)
• Fixed regression error in archive restoration (#593)

v0.4.4

Bump to 0.4.4 (just version number from last 'release')

v0.4.3

#567
#568
#570
#571
#572
#573
#574
#569
#575

v0.4.2

Fixed one more PyPI release related typo

v0.4.1

Updates since 0.4.0, drafted for the release to PyPI #473

Syzygy

Work on this release was supported by the Prototype Fund.

Issues addressed in this release:

https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.4+is%3Aclosed

Summary:

• Robust ListServ data ingress #460 #459 #457
• New ReadTheDocs/Sphinx based documentation: domain name and organization metadata #414 #499 #548
• New code submodule organization
• 3GPP analysis #465
• datasets submodule for ancillary data #509
• Integration of IETF datatracker source and analysis of IETF attendance data #368 #560 #434
• IETF draft analysis #370
• Tools to identify the institution of email senders #25
• Improved test coverage #343
• Change from nose to unittest for testing framework #366
• Updates and corrections to example notebooks #364
• Bug fixes #538 #553 #555 #390
• Preliminary work towards entity resolution #405

Joie de vivre

This release converted the codebase to Python 3 and introduced the DataTracker and LISTSERV data sources, among with several new scientific notebooks and maintenance improvements.

• Converted to Python 3 (#347, #373, #382, #388)
• Installation improvements (#345, #410, #423)
• Tenure calculation (#355)
• Improved documentation (#351, #389, #450)
• Improved testing (#372, #443)
• W3C data source improvements (#344, #381)
• Organization entity resolution (#385)
• Integration of IETF DataTracker data (#386, #394, #444)
• Organization and affiliation analysis notebooks (#396)
• Code style pre-commit hooks (#403)
• LISTSERV data source (#409, #442, #454, #456)

0.2.0 Tulip Revolution

We have released BigBang v0.2.0 Tulip Revolution.

This release marks a new milestone in BigBang development.

• Gender participation estimation
• Improved support for IETF mailing list ingest
• Extensive gardening of the example notebooks
• Upgraded all notebooks to Jupyter 4
• Improved installation process based on user testing

En route to this milestone, the BigBang community made a number of changes to its procedures. These include:

• The adoption of a Governance document for guiding decision-making.
• The adoption of a Code of Conduct establishing norms of respectful behavior within the community.
• The creation of an ombudsteam for handling personal disputes.

We have also for this milestone adopted by community decision the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

Anteplanck I

An initial public release of BigBand. Proof of concept.