splink

What's Changed

• Update u probability formula and example in fellegi_sunter.md by @jacuna88 in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2036
• Splink 3: Increment minimum python version from 3.7 to 3.8 by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2031
• Make graph metrics public by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2027
• Add PUDL to list of use cases by @zaneselvans in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2044
• Threshold selection tool by @samnlindsay in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2003
• Simple extension to term frequency adjustments for inexact matches by @samkodes in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2020
• Update bug report template by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2073
• Fix mkdocs rendering symbols in notebook code by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2033
• rm deprecated action and bash scripts by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2094
• Fix sqlglot>=23.0.0 issue by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2079
• 3.9.14 release by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2095

New Contributors

• @jacuna88 made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2036
• @zaneselvans made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2044
• @samkodes made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2020

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.13...v3.9.14

What's Changed

• Mkdocs preprocess hooks by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1913
• Docs workflow - build and check links on PRs by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1915
• minor homepage tweaks by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1919
• Model evaluation guide by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1916
• convert accuracy metrics to float by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1893
• Use CASE instead of bool to float casting in truth_space_table by @cinnq346 in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1928
• add NICD x Gateshead use case by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1931
• Update venv to use a custom name and edit errors by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1918
• Add comparison level validation check by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1926
• Update load settings and make it the defacto load logic by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1921
• Cast row_count as float8 in truth_table by @cinnq346 in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1936
• Trim documentation dependencies by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1917
• Fix docs build by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1953
• Implement is_bridge edge metric by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1894
• add parameter to anonymise waterfall chart by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1938
• Clarify naming of hide_details on waterfall chart by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1963
• (Try to) fix css styling for the summary/details tags in .vega-embed by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1966
• Accuracy chart - altair bug by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1965
• use .sql not .execute by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1952
• CI - update splink4 'to-merge' branch by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1984
• sqlglot.parse_one - use read keyword argument by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1996
• Edge evaluation guide by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1927
• Adding support for DBR 13.x and 14.x by @boobay in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1973
• SplinkDataFrame metadata in clustering + metrics by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1981
• Refine additional installs in the readme by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2007
• compute_graph_metrics - compute what we can without igraph by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1982
• Add a section on dependency management within Splink by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1985
• Spell check single files by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2000
• Change file name to reflect graph naming conventions by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2015
• Relax Splink 3 Dependency Requirements - demonstrate all tests pass with latest sqlglot by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1998
• Fix test failures in duckdb 0.10.0 by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1999
• v3.9.13 release by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/2024

New Contributors

• @cinnq346 made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1928
• @boobay made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1973

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.12...v3.9.13

What's Changed

• Update mkdocs.yml by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1858
• Add support for SaltedBlockingRule for EM training (again) by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1853
• Update performance.md by @DanielOX in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1865
• add initial usecases to homepage by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1864
• fix edit link by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1866
• Minor correction to docstring by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1867
• Fixes #1872 Update deduplicate_1k_synthetic.ipynb to fix spark error by @w2o-hbrashear in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1873
• Document duckdb parallelism by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1877
• Ethics Blog & blog docs by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1849
• Initial evaluation topic guide by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1876
• Update 2024-01-25-ethics.md by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1879
• add datafirst datasets to use cases by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1880
• Minor tweaks to sampling by cluster size by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1829
• fix broken link by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1900
• Update sampling logic for density by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1831
• return data class instead of dictionary by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1887
• CI link-checking + fixed links by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1902
• SQLAlchemy 1.x and 2.x compatibility: Use explicit transactions, remove sqlalchemy version constraint by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1908
• Type hinting and variable renaming (mypy conformance stage 1) by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1780
• 3.9.12 Release by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1911

New Contributors

• @DanielOX made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1865
• @w2o-hbrashear made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1873

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.11...v3.9.12

What's Changed

• Faster duckdb train u by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1800
• remove reference to deleted token by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1802
• material by mkdocs upgrade by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1803
• authors yml format fix by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1804
• Fix broken links by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1805
• Cluster studio sample by density by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1754
• Cluster metrics - node degree + cluster centralisation by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1806
• Parallelise duckdb resulting in e.g. 2-4x speedup on 6 core machine by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1796
• Remove brittleness of convergence test by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1798
• Enable salting for EM training by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1832
• Fix linting workflows by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1836
• Refactor of 1664: add ability to do efficient blocking based on list/array intersections by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1692
• changelog: note add ability to block on array columns to by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1847
• 3.9.11 release by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1848

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.10...v3.9.11

What's Changed

• Bump aiohttp from 3.8.5 to 3.8.6 by @dependabot in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1741
• Bump urllib3 from 1.26.16 to 1.26.18 by @dependabot in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1656
• BlockingRule: Refactor to enable better iteration by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1701
• Fix issue with _source_dataset_col and _source_dataset_input_column by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1731
• [MAINT] Improve speed of tests by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1736
• When you go to open an issue, add a link to discussions below our issue templates by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1746
• Finds blocking rules which return a comparison count below a given threshold by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1665
• Compute the cost of combinations of blocking rules by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1667
• Fix docs build by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1748
• [BUG] Delete cached tables before resetting the cache by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1752
• Automatically detect blocking rules for prediction and blocking rules for EM training by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1668
• added argument for register_udfs_automatically by @JonathanLaidler in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1774
• Make notebook tests run faster by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1772
• Improve speed of link only sample test by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1773
• Remove unused code and improve the Athena Linker by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1775
• Fixes to _compute_cluster_metrics by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1763
• Add Mypy setup to pyproject.toml by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1779
• Introduce a ColumnTreeBuilder to aid in the construction of our column ASTs by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1757
• [MAINT] Revamp the settings validation steps by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1764
• Fix brl comp test by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1784
• add cs awards to readme by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1792
• v3.9.10 by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1790
• Blog - Dec 2023 by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1791

New Contributors

• @dependabot made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1741
• @JonathanLaidler made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1774

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.9...v3.9.10

What's Changed

• fix non-quoted db&catalog issues by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1558
• Update sqlglot to >=13.0.0 by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1642
• Migrate splink_vis_utils.js changes to upstream repo by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1639
• Fix issue 1651 - comparison viewer bars sorted improperly by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1652
• Fix bug with labelling tool where it didn't work offline by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1646
• Update binder to point to splink repo by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1655
• [MAINT] Refactor and clean our settings validation logs by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1636
• improve the settings validation documentation by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1674
• fixed null level issue for composing comparison levels by @aymonwuolanne in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1672
• typo by @sama-ds in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1682
• Lambda default warning by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1653
• Fix typos by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1691
• Added a Changelog by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1690
• fix docstrings to use .to_dict() instead of .spec by @aymonwuolanne in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1694
• Explicitly cast postgres function return values by @sluhn-harrisr in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1693
• Refactor block_using_rules_sql to follow normal pattern and avoid confusion by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1695
• Update missingness.py by @samnlindsay in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1662
• Fix spark fixture by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1698
• Corrected docstring to match connected components algorithm by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1702
• BlockingRule: Clarify name of sql property by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1700
• fix duplicate doc files by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1659
• Settings val updates by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1710
• add settings validation docs by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1648
• 856 profile null column by @sama-ds in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1339
• Cluster metrics by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1677
• Check input frames have same columns - missingness by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1611
• Fix InputColumn quoting for spark and improve code quality by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1719
• fix: respect boto3_session when checking table existence from AthenaLinker by @finalgrrrl in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1733
• Convert all InputColumn methods that take no arguments to properties by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1730
• 3.9.9 by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1735

New Contributors

• @sluhn-harrisr made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1693
• @finalgrrrl made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1733

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.8...v3.9.9

What's Changed

• Add Spellchecker by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1588
• Stopped repeat installs if already in docs-venv by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1590
• Installation docs tweak by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1617
• Add table deletion functionality to spark delta tables by @ardila1108 in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1526
• Perform spellcheck by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1620
• Add roc chart to gallery by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1599
• update ctl docs by @afua-moj in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1624
• fix problem with csv overwriting in spark by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1635
• Update scala jars and adjust dependencies by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1622

New Contributors

• @ardila1108 made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1526

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.7...v3.9.8

What's Changed

• Confusion matrix chart by @samnlindsay in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1528
• assign comparator score dataframe by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1520
• Update examples to use block on by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1540
• Add unlinkables chart to gallery by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1547
• Reduce SQLite example notebook size by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1545
• exact_match_rule -> block_on by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1553
• charts gallery to use block_on by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1546
• lock poetry to v1.5.1 by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1557
• add troubleshooting section to splink datasets by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1566
• add waterfall chart to gallery by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1550
• Chart Gallery - accuracy chart by @samnlindsay in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1563
• Allowed profile_columns to take 0 arguments by @sama-ds in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1516
• Add summary statistics for blocks[issue 1106] by @sama-ds in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1321
• [REFACTOR] Settings validation refactor by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1523
• 1535 doc make em speed up parameters more visible in the docs by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1544
• fix cumulative_rows count by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1577
• Cluster studio fixes by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1463
• Comparison viewer - filter with chart labels + render on empty subset by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1462
• Comparison checker - bug fixes and code cleaning by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1560
• Add model definition charts to gallery by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1551
• Initial comparison level validation by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1522
• group -> cluster by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1585
• Comparison dialect validation by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1579
• run the linter by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1589
• add charts dev guide by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1586
• SQlite example notebook fix by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1592
• add initial block on docs by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1591
• match weight tweaks by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1578
• Comparison viewer - handle comparisons with spacey names + fix waterfall tooltip by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1596
• Comparison viewer colour gamma grid on match weight by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1470
• Drop support for py 3.7 by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1600
• add path arguments to automated tests by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1595
• Backend installs by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1554
• 3.9.7 by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1610

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.6...v3.9.7

What's Changed

• adjust the output from parse_duration by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1498
• Reduce EM training warnings by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1491
• 1266 invalid dates to null level by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1267
• fix broken settings editor link by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1506
• add docs pointing to tf chart by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1507
• remove set clause by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1504
• String comparator charts by @samnlindsay in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1408
• Add further reading to tutorial by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1449
• fix sqlite table registration by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1485
• New link accuracy chart by @samnlindsay in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1478
• adjusted default xlim inmissingness chart json by @aliceoleary0 in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1511
• small tweak to also adjust heatmap scale axis limits by @aliceoleary0 in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1521
• change deprecation warnings to SplinkDeprecated warnings by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1519
• Make brs json serialisable by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1530
• change u default in parameters comparison chart by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1532
• refactor: perf: dedupe logic, inf checks in predict.py by @NickCrews in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1495
• Temp br erg push by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1536
• Add Charts gallery by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1517
• Br ergonomics fix json serialisable err by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1539
• Add Blocking chart to gallery by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1524
• Blocking rule library ergonomics changes by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1534
• V3.9.6 by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1541

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.5...v3.9.6

What's Changed

• Splink dataframe docs by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1457
• Fix issue 1414 by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1416
• Fix find_matches test by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1459
• Regex docs by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1296
• Rename join conditions method for clarity by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1439
• fix broken links by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1476
• Add Splink Blog to the docs by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1451
• Fix estimate lambda as zero by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1477
• Add all tutorial and example datasets to splink.datasets by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1466
• Demos migration by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1431
• add charts plugin by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1490
• Accessibility improvements by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1489

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.4...v3.9.5

What's Changed

• Add dataset table generation script to docs workflow by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1399
• ccl table fix by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1400
• Bump minimum duckdb version to 0.8.0 by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1405
• Postgres docs by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1404
• SL docs edits by @samnlindsay in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1402
• fix docs links to point to master by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1419
• [FEAT] Detect equi-join conditions in a blocking rule to count the number of comparisons without needing to perform the join by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1388
• fix else_level examples - no parameter needed by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1423
• remove survey in banner by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1432
• FIX: add parens to blocking rules by @NickCrews in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1422
• run actions on _dev branches by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1433
• [FEAT] Blocking Rule helper functions by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1370
• Update splink demos by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1407
• Contributing guide by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1394
• ref: Remove pre-check for path when loading file by @NickCrews in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1438
• add blocking rule library to existing functions by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1436
• Blocking Topic Guides by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1389
• Remove_pkg_resources by @NickCrews in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1425
• String comparisons doc text formatting by @samnlindsay in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1445
• V3.9.4 by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1458

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.3...v3.9.4

What's Changed

• Fellegi sunter topic guide by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1318
• [MAINT] Backend agnostic comparison composition tests by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1341
• 1109 athena datediff by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1338
• Extend CacheDictWithLogging so that it also stores all tables materialises by Splink, not just the named ones (Issue 1059) by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1061
• Issue 1225 - Poor performance of estimate u in a link_only job by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1359
• Add a timer into debug mode by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1367
• lint for print() statements by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1374
• Expectation maximisation speedup option by @aymonwuolanne in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1369
• record linkage topic guides by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1297
• add icons to docs and generated tables by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1353
• [FEAT] Splink Labelling tool beta by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1208
• Docs navigation improvements by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1381
• Postgres bug fixes by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1335
• Txt replacement bash script by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1378
• Basic settings validator by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1252
• Add summary of each backend to docs by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1385
• [BUG] fix how nulls are registered in pyspark when loading a pandas df by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1373
• Tweak readme by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1393
• Splink dummy data by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1358
• Release v3.9.3 by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1398

New Contributors

• @aymonwuolanne made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1369

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.2...v3.9.3

What's Changed

• Postgres Linker by @hanslemm in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1191
• Fix altair dependency - redo by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1308
• Add Google analytics to docs by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1313
• Add docs on udfs in sqlite and duckdb by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1317
• satisfy the linter by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1322
• Adjust import paths to remove backend prefixes by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1320
• Initial commit for email comparison level feature. by @sama-ds in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1277
• migrate duckdbless action to release by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1323
• fix symlinks action by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1324
• make datediff tests backend agnostic by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1294
• Postgres backend by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1251
• Fix calculation of link-only sample size for u-training by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1312
• Sqlite - fix default connect and levenshtein by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1336
• Altair 5: All Splink charts become alt.Chart() objects rather than custom VegaLiteNoValidate by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1315
• Update actions by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1342
• Remove redundant headers of PR template by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1347
• add banner pointing to google form by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1349
• updating splink version by @aliceoleary0 in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1351

New Contributors

• @hanslemm made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1191
• @sama-ds made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1277

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.1...v3.9.2

What's Changed

• Update releases.md by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1273
• Readme formatting by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1274
• Use tmp_path in deterministic link test by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1275
• allow lowercase postcodes by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1263
• update linting bash script by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1290
• clean datediff code by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1291
• save_settings_to_json -> save_model_to_json by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1283
• Add PR template by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1253
• Settings Topic Guide by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1292
• Comparison pseudo symlinks by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1279
• Update parameter_estimate_comparisons.json by @samnlindsay in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1301

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.9.0...v3.9.1

What's Changed

• Docs upgrades by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1222
• Adjust table registration by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1219
• Add regex extract functionality to comparisons by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1203
• Issue 1227 - Allow materialisation of df_representatives with no _ suffix by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1228
• 1189 tf topic guide by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1214
• Write splinkdf to csv parquet by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1194
• pretty print erroneous sql by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1238
• Cleaned up comparison levels documentation to be a multi-line code bl… by @mastratton3 in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1236
• Postcode comparison template by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1230
• Forename Surname ctl by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1174
• 430 Term frequency adjustment chart by @samnlindsay in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1226
• 1111 add damerau levenshtein by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1181
• Duckdbless splink by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1244
• term_frequency_adjustments_names -> term_frequency_adjustments by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1254
• 1175 deterministric clusters by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1213
• Update citations by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1255
• update benchmarking action to run on PR merge by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1262
• Backend-agnostic testing by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1205
• Adjust cl imports by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1248
• Add Topic guide for choosing comparisons & thresholds by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1198
• tweak duckdbless action by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1270
• fix duckdbless reqs url by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1271
• New release v3.9.0 by @zslade in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1272

New Contributors

• @mastratton3 made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1236

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.8.1...v3.9.0

What's Changed

• Releases dev guide by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1202
• Fix link only cartesian calc by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1204

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.8.0...v3.8.1

What's Changed

• Make the example notebooks run faster by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1160
• Add tags by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1165
• Benchmark timeseries commit workflow to run only in upstream repo by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1152
• Create _register_input_tables method in our main linker class by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1172
• Documentation examples by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1159
• Fix autoblack checkout step by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1169
• Add emojis rather than bullets by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1180
• Add option to pass seed into estimate_u_using_random_sampling by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1161
• Adjust the outputs of truth_space_table_from_labels_with_predictions_sqls to be lowercase by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1183
• Improve Logging by @NickCrews in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1084
• Improve logging by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1186
• Add docs for Feature Engineering by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1178
• Add UDFs dev guide by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1182
• [BUG] Fix source dataset issue when running link jobs by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1193
• 1107 add jaro similarity by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1167
• migrate ComparisonProperties by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1195
• revert to old comparison script structure by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1197
• 1030 option for auto typecasting datediff by @aliceoleary0 in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1162
• Athena updates by @ThomasHepworth in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1187
• Release 3.8.0 by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1201

New Contributors

• @aliceoleary0 made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1162

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.7.3...v3.8.0

What's Changed

• Linting update by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1131
• Fix autoblack workflow for forks by @ADBond in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1133
• remove invalid comma by @wilko77 in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1143
• Improve readme what does splink do by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1129
• Improve copy writing on readme by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1144
• Improve readme images for clarity by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1145
• Attempt to make examples notebooks action faster by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1147
• ComparisonLevel composition v2 by @NickCrews in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1114
• Update run_demos_examples.yml by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1154
• 1151 fix term frequencies for cols reversed by @afua-moj in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1156
• Add previously breaking tf case to tests by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1157
• Version 3.7.3 by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1158

New Contributors

• @wilko77 made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1143
• @afua-moj made their first contribution in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1156

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.7.2...v3.7.3

What's Changed

• Add comparison template library functions for simple name column by @RossKen in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1125
• Modify defaults for repartitioning by @RobinL in https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1138

Full Changelog: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/compare/v3.7.1...v3.7.2