Balance

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Bug Fixes
- Sample.from_frame now also converts int16 and in8 to float16 and float16. Thus helping to avoid `TypeError: Cannot interpret 'Int16Dtype()' as a data type` style errors.

Documentation
- Added ISSUE_TEMPLATE

Contributors
talgalili, stevemandala, SarigT

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New Features
- Added compatibility for Python 3.11 (by supporting SciPy 1.9.2) (props to tomwagstaff-opml for flagging this issue).
- Added the `session-info` package as a dependency.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed pip install from source on Windows machines (props to tomwagstaff-opml for the bug report).

Documentation
- Added `session_info.show()` outputs to the end of the three tutorials (at: https://import-balance.org/docs/tutorials/)
- Misc updates to the README.

Contributors
stevemandala, SarigT, talgalili

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New Features
- cli improvements:
- Add an option to set weight_trimming_mean_ratio = None for no trimming.
- Add an option to set transformations to be None (i.e. no transformations).
- Add an option to adapt the title in:
- stats_and_plots.weighted_comparison_plots.plot_bar
- stats_and_plots.weighted_comparison_plots.plot_hist_kde

Bug Fixes
- Fix (and simplify) balanceDF.plot to organize the order of groups (now unadjusted/self is left, adjusted/self center, and target is on the right)
- Fix plotly functions to use the red color for self when only compared to target (since in that case it is likely unadjusted): balance.stats_and_plots.weighted_comparisons_plots.plotly_plot_qq and balance.stats_and_plots.weighted_comparisons_plots.plotly_plot_bar
- Fix seaborn_plot_dist: output None by default (instead of axis object). Added a return_Axes argument to control this behavior.
- Fix some test_cbps tests that were failing due to non-exact matches (we made the test less sensitive)

Documentation
- New blog section, with the post: [Bringing "balance" to your data
](https://import-balance.org/blog/2023/01/09/bringing-balance-to-your-data/)
- New tutorial:
- [**quickstart_cbps**](https://import-balance.org/docs/tutorials/quickstart_cbps/) - like the [**quickstart**](https://import-balance.org/docs/tutorials/quickstart/) tutorial, but shows how to use the CBPS algorithm and compares the results to IPW (logistic regression with LASSO).
- [**balance_transformations_and_formulas**](https://import-balance.org/docs/tutorials/balance_transformations_and_formulas/) - This tutorial showcases ways in which transformations, formulas and penalty can be included in your pre-processing of the covariates
before adjusting for them.
- API docs:
- New: highlighting on codeblocks
- a bunch of text fixes.
- Update README.md
- logo
- with contributors
- typo fixes (props to zbraiterman and luca-martial).
- Added section about "Releasing a new version" to CONTRIBUTING.md
- Available under ["Docs/Contributing"](https://import-balance.org/docs/docs/contributing/#releasing-a-new-version) section of website

Misc
- Added automated Github Action package builds & deployment to PyPi on release.
- See [release.yml](https://github.com/facebookresearch/balance/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yml)

Contributors
stevemandala, SarigT, talgalili

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Summary
- balance released to the world!

Contributors
SarigT, talgalili, stevemandala