Mlarena

Changed
- Improved documentation clarity
- Updated Python version badge to explicitly show supported versions (3.10, 3.11, 3.12)

Fixed
- Fixed PyPI badge reliability by switching to badge.fury.io

Changed
- Updated README.md with improved documentation and images
- Updated PyPI badge to use shields.io for better reliability

Fixed
- None

Added
- Added pytest-cov for code coverage reporting
- Added comprehensive test assertions for pipeline evaluation results

Changed
- Improved test structure with proper assertions instead of return statements
- Added warning filters in pytest.ini to suppress third-party deprecation warnings
- Improved code formatting with black (line length set to 88)

Fixed
- None

Fixed
- Added `setuptools` as a dependency to fix compatibility issues with hyperopt's ATPE module
- This fix is particularly important for Python 3.12+ users where setuptools is not automatically installed

Added
- Initial release of MLArena
- `PreProcessor` class for data preprocessing
- Filter Feature Selection
- Categorical encoding (OneHot, Target)
- Recommendation of encoding strategy
- Plot to compare target encoding smoothing parameters
- Numeric scaling
- Missing value imputation
- `ML_PIPELINE` class for machine learning workflow
- Algorithm agnostic model wrapper
- Support both classification (binary) and regression algorithms
- Model training and scoring
- Model global and local explanation
- Model evaluation with comprehensive reporting and plots
- Iterative hyperparameter tuning with diagnostic plot
- Threshold analysis and optimization for classification models
- Comprehensive documentation
- Installation guide
- Usage guide
- API reference
- Examples
- Contributing guidelines
- Test suite with pytest
- Development tools configuration
- black for code formatting
- flake8 for linting
- isort for import sorting
- mypy for type checking

Changed
- None (initial release)

Deprecated
- None (initial release)

Removed
- None (initial release)

Fixed
- None (initial release)

Security
- None (initial release)