v.0.4.1

Overview

This release adds important functions (e.g., NASC data ingestion, semivariogram fitting) and substantial documentation expansions, along with a few bug fixes.

What's Changed

New features, bug fixes, and enhancements ✨

Software 🖥️

• Raw Echoview export ingestion and batch processing by @brandynlucca in #257, #274
  • This deprecates the need for the haul-to-transect key *.xlsx files
• New semivariogram fitting and optimization methods by @brandynlucca in #251
  • This includes a notebook GUI by @brandynlucca in #258, #267
• Adjustments to the kriging mesh cropping method by @brandynlucca in #269, #273
• Addressed a bug preventing INPFC from being used instead of KS for transect_analysis by @brandynlucca in #272
• Upgrades to summary console printouts of analysis results @brandynlucca in #255

Documentation 📖

• Differences between EchoPro and Echopop by @brandynlucca in #277
• Updates to the example workbook in the software documentation which reflect updated methods by @brandynlucca in #258, #267
• Updates to the description of the dataset columns in 'Input Files' by @brandynlucca in #283
• Description of how data files are loaded and preprocessed within Echopop by @brandynlucca in #274
• Theoretical description of how kriged biomass results can be converted into abundance and NASC by @brandynlucca, @leewujung in #216
• Improvements to the equations in both the kriged abundance and kriged biomass apportionment document pages by @leewujung in #280

Infrastructure 🏗️

• New internal checks for validating configuration and data file inputs have been added by @brandynlucca in #248, #271, #275
• Methods for translating various column names into those required in Echopop by @brandynlucca in #268
• Additional testing methods via tox by @brandynlucca in #251

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v.0.4.1