v2.0/v2.0.1

release: v2.0

v0.1.6

What's new?

• Linux support.
• Support of high resolution displays.
• No Internet connection required anymore.
• There is now a stop button to stop the modeling process and return to the home page.
• A bug has been fixed that caused an error message to appear after the program was closed properly.
• The values in the document-topic matrix are rounded to four decimal places. This excludes the (more - problematic) scientific notation of numbers.
• The exported CSV files are now separated with semicolons and can be opened more easily in Microsoft Excel.
• On the modeling page there is now a progress bar showing the total progress.
• More information about the current step of the program.
• The modeling page has been completely redesigned. Here, for example, a section of the corpus or interesting information about LDA topic modeling in general is now displayed.

v0.1.1/v0.1.2

What's new?

• The code has been completely refactored.
• Extended documentation.
• Some bugfixes regarding problematic XML files.
• Improved error handling: if something goes wrong, the user gets the corresponding error message and has the possibility to return to the start page.
• More widgets for plot interaction (text field including autocompletion, but this is still a beta feature).
• Links to nice resources, when the user clicks on them, they are opened in the standard browser.
• Users have the possibility to download everything as a ZIP archive by clicking a button.
• Progress bar for macOS.
• Smarter handling of temporary data.
• A bugfix for the macOS version.

v0.0.2

New features

• Application opens now really fast (should within ~ 3 seconds, but definitely under 10 seconds)
• More detailed instructions and documentation
• Support of non-TEI XML
• Usability improvements (e.g. help button, reset button, bigger and more obvious send-button, ...)
• Better error handling (e.g. required HTML forms, input type specification, ...)
• User interface (not dependent upon a web browser anymore)
• Progress bar (detailed information on current workflow step, e.g. current iteration, ...)
  • Not yet for macOS
• Nicer plots (now purely based on bokeh), and in general more visualizations
• Summary of parameters and corpus statistics
• Interaction with some plots now possible
• Model output and visualizations will be automatically zipped in an archive and saved to working directory
  • Not yet for macOS

but:

• Active internet connection required.