v0.12.1

New Features

• Pointblank now internally handles all Ibis tables using Narwhals. (#257)

Full Changelog: v0.12.0...v0.12.1

v0.12.0

New Features

• The segmentation feature was expanded by way of the new seg_group() helper function. (#243)
• You can now validate Spark DataFrames without using Ibis (we now internally process those using Narwhals). (#256)

Full Changelog: v0.11.6...v0.12.0

v0.11.6

Docs

• Enhanced YAML documentation by creating two new articles for the User Guide. (#249)

Fixes

• Specify ignore_nulls=True in nw.all_horizontal. (@MarcoGorelli, #251)

New Contributors

• @MarcoGorelli made their first contribution in #251

Full Changelog: v0.11.5...v0.11.6

v0.11.5

• Added pyyaml as a dependency.

Full Changelog: v0.11.4...v0.11.5

v0.11.4

New Features

• It's now possible to define YAML configuration files for validation workflows and run the YAML validations through yaml_interrogate() or in the Pointblank CLI via pb run (#247, #248)

Full Changelog: v0.11.3...v0.11.4

v0.11.3

New Features

• The CLI has the new pb pl command, allowing you to run Polars at the command line. (#246)

Full Changelog: v0.11.2...v0.11.3

v0.11.2

Fixes

• The display of the CLI's pb run output is much improved and more closely follows the tabular HTML output of the Python API. (#240)
• For the CLI's pb validate and pb run commands, the extract limit is now correctly applied to written CSVs (while displayed extracts will always have a limit of 10). (#242)

Documentation

• Improved the CLI articles in the User Guide. (#236)
• Updated the CLI demonstration gif for the project website. (#241)

Full Changelog: v0.11.1...v0.11.2

v0.11.1

New Features

• Have consistent input ingestion for all classes/functions with a data= parameter. (#223)
• Enable data to be obtained via GitHub URLs. (#224)
• Allow CLI's pb validate to perform multiple validations. (#231)
• For CLI's pb validate allow --column to use column index. (#233)

Fixes

• Use _process_data() to centralize data ingest functionality. (#225, #226)
• Improve display of tables in CLI. (#227)
• Simplify use of extracts in CLI. (#228)
• Rework pb validate to primarily be a validation script runner. (#229)
• Make CLI table styling consistent across all commands. (#234)
• Improve messages with pb validate <data> default and add --list-checks option. (#230)

Documentation

• Update VHS-based terminal recordings. (#232)
• Create two new CLI utility articles. (#235)

Full Changelog: v0.11.0...v0.11.1

v0.11.0

New Features

• The pb CLI utility has been added to enable: (1) quick data quality checks, (2) exploration of data at the command line, and (3) easy integration with shell scripts and automation workflows. (#221)

Full Changelog: v0.10.0...v0.11.0

v0.10.0

New Features

• It's now possible to validate Polars LazyFrames. (#200)
• Paths to CSV and Parquet files can now be used as inputs for Validate and preview(). (#213, #214, #217)
• The get_data_path() function was added so that paths to internal CSV and Parquet example datasets can be accessed. (#215)
• Data connection strings can be used directly with Validate to connect to DB tables via Ibis. (#216)

Fixes

• The DataScan class was refactored to expose data and statistics consistently. (@tylerriccio33, #94)
• Pass/fail result counting during interrogation is now more computationally efficient. (#203)
• Validation steps using col_vals_expr() can now correctly return data extracts (and produce a CSV button in the validation report table). (@zilto, #197)
• A dependency on Pandas during the rendering validation report tables was eliminated. (#220)
• An unwanted scrollbar in the API reference pages (obscuring text for parameters) was removed. (@matt-humphrey, #218)

Documentation

• The project website's API reference underwent several layout and typesetting changes for the better. (#204, #205, #208, #209)
• Terminology throughout the documentation was improved so that users can better distinguish column- and row-based validation methods. (#199)
• A few more Pointblank demos were added to the project website's Examples page. (#210)
• Several posts were added to the Pointblog. (#177, #202)
• Improved the interlinking in the User Guide thanks to new functionality in quartodoc. (#191, #212)

New Contributors

• @zilto made their first contribution in #197
• @matt-humphrey made their first contribution in #218

Full Changelog: v0.9.6...v0.10.0