Microarviz

New features
* Add plot_dist ([592](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/592))
* New rhat and ess ([623](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/623))
* Add plot_hpd ([611](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/611))
* Add plot_rank ([625](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/625))

Deprecation
* Remove load_data and save_data ([625](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/625))

New features
* Plot ppc supports multiple chains ([526](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/526))
* Plot titles now wrap ([441](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/441))
* plot_density uses a grid ([379](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/379))
* emcee reader support ([550](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/550))
* Animations in plot_ppc ([546](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/546))
* Optional dictionary for stat_funcs in summary ([583](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/583))
* Can exclude variables in selections with negated variable names ([574](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/574))

Maintenance and fixes
* Order maintained with xarray_var_iter ([557](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/557))
* Testing very improved (multiple)
* Fix nan handling in effective sample size ([573](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/573))
* Fix kde scaling ([582](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/582))
* xticks for discrete variables ([586](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/586))
* Empty InferenceData saves consistent with netcdf ([577](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/577))
* Removes numpy pinning ([594](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/594))

Documentation
* JOSS and Zenodo badges ([537](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/537))
* Gitter badge ([548](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/548))
* Docs for combining InferenceData ([590](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/590))

New features

* Support PyStan3 ([464](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/464))
* Add some more information to the inference data of tfp ([447](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/447))
* Use Split R-hat ([477](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/477))
* Normalize from_xyz functions ([490](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/490))
* KDE: Display quantiles ([479](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/479))
* Add multiple rope support to `plot_forest` ([448](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/448))
* Numba jit compilation to speed up some methods ([515](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/515))
* Add `from_dict` for easier creation of az.InferenceData objects ([524](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/524))
* Add stable logsumexp ([522](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/522))


Maintenance and fixes

* Fix for `from_pyro` with multiple chains ([463](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/463))
* Check `__version__` for attr ([466](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/466))
* And exception to plot compare ([461](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/461))
* Add Docker Testing to travisCI ([473](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/473))
* fix jointplot warning ([478](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/478))
* Fix tensorflow import bug ([489](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/489))
* Rename N_effective to S_effective ([505](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/505))


Documentation

* Add docs to plot compare ([461](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/461))
* Add InferenceData tutorial in header ([502](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/502))
* Added figure to InferenceData tutorial ([510](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/510))

Maintenance and fixes

* First Beta Release