Yellowbrick released Version 1.1 on February 25, 2020. If you haven’t yet upgraded simply type pip install yellowbrick -U or conda install -c districtdatalabs yellow-brick into your terminal/command prompt to get it. The major improvement in v1.1 is introducing quick methods or one-liners to generate your favorite ML plots more quickly with Yellowbrick. Dr.
Rebecca Bilbro, our co-founder, gave a talk “Visual Diagnostics for Machine Learning” (featuring Yellowbrick!)in Washington, D.C. on February 25, 2020 (presentation recording link) for an open source/startup incubator based in Washington, D.C. HatchIT.
Later this month, maintainer Prema Roman and Yellowbrick Board Chair/ Core Contributor Kristen McyIntyre will present on Yellowbrick to a Statistics.com meetup. Please monitor our Twitter account (@scikit-yb) for details.
Laura Lorenz, a Yellowbrick user, hosted a virtual Pycon2020 Open Space. You can read about it here!
This update was accidentally excluded from the April 2020 Newsletter in error. Future Yellowbrick updates will be found there.