- Added test coverage for grouped and masked top/bottom.
- Added test coverage for grouped rank on datetime factors.
- Fixed an issue where grouped rank would fail on datetime inputs
because unary-negative isn't defined for datetimes. We now instead
directly invoke a function from rank.pyx that does the normalizations
as neeeded.
- Fixed an issue where GroupedRowTransform assumed that it produced the
same dtype as its input. This isn't true for rank() of a
datetime-dtype factor. GroupedRowTransform now takes a required dtype
parameter.
- Similarly, fixed an issue where GroupedRowTransform assumed that its
missing_value was the same as its parent's, which isn't true for
rank() of a datetime-dtype factor. GroupedRowTransform now takes a
required dtype parameter.
- Fixed an issue where Factor.demean() and Factor.zscore() weren't
properly cached because their static_identity included a closure that
was dynamically generated on each invocation. They both now always
use a function defined at module scope.
EarningsCalendar loader.
- Moves most of AdjustedArray back into Python. The window iterator is
the only part that's performance-intensive.
- Adds a bootleg templating system for creating specialized versions of
AdjustedArrayWindow for each concrete type we care about.
- Adds support for differently dtyped terms in pipeline. This allows us
to use datetime64s which are needed in the EarningsCalendar.
- Adds EarningsCalendar dataset for the next and previous earnings
announcements in pipeline.
- Adds in memory loader for EarningsCalendar.
- Adds blaze loader for EarningsCalendar.
- Add an `ascending=True` keyword to `rank()`.
- Add `top(N)` and `bottom(N)` methods to Factor. These return Filters
that pass the top and bottom N elements each day.
- Add a slightly faster path for rank(method='ordinal'). I had
originally thought the fast path was 2-3x faster because I had my
benchmark data axes flipped. The actual speedup is only 5-10%, which
means it probably wasn't worth the effort to Cythonize...but we have a
slightly faster version now so we might as well use it.
- Refactor test_filter and test_factor to make it easier to implement
and test transformations on factors. These tests now subclass
BaseFFCTestCase, which provides facilities for passing a dict of terms
and an "initial_workspace", the values for which are used by
SimpleFFCEngine rather than needing to manually manage the inputs and
outputs of each term.
Scott Sanderson