Architecture Upgrades and IQR Demo app
This is an initial stable release based on the functionality of the IQR demo web application.
Lots of architecture changes, re-namings, and modular implementations added:
- Added documentation for building and understanding SMQTK
- Examples documents and code started thanks to jeffbaumes.
- Implemented a version of ITQ LSH algorithm with much help and initial translation from z-harry-sun.
- See referenced [UCH paper](/python/smqtk/algorithms/nn_index/lsh/itq.py)
- Added Travis-CI hooks for building on python 2.7
- Added a lot of unit tests
- Refactored configuration methods used away from a global to a per-application basis.
- added utilities for nested object configuration via JSON type-compliant dictionaries
- Refactored IQR search demo web application to function again
- modified interface slightly due to data model changes