What's New in VerticaPy v0.4.1

New features:

User-Defined Functions

• Automatically generate your own customized UDF using the create_lib_udf function.

Geospatial

• New Function: use create_index to create geospatial indexes.

Machine Learning & Statistical Tools

• VerticaPy Pipelines are now available. These allow you to combine multiple VerticaPy models.
• OneHotEncoder has more parameters.
• The Regressors method regression_report now more options (Anova Table, Metrics...) and computes more metrics (R2 adjusted, RMSE).
• You can now compute the ANOVA table using the function anova_table.
• New statistical tests to verify Homoscedasticity: het_arch, het_breuschpagan, het_goldfeldquandt, het_white.
• New statistical tests to verify variables Normality: normaltest, kurtosistest, skewtest.

vDataFrame

• Removed: DataFrame.to_vdf and read_vdf
• New method: vDataFrame.to_pickle allows pickling vDataFrames.

GitHub & Unit Tests

• GitHub Action now allows for on-site testing.
• More unit tests are available.