# yardstick 0.0.3 ## New metrics and functionality * `mase()` is a numeric metric for the mean absolute scaled error. It is generally useful when forecasting with time series (@alexhallam, #68). * `huber_loss()` is a numeric metric that is less sensitive to outliers than `rmse()`, but is more sensitive than `mae()` for small errors (@blairj09, #71). * `huber_loss_pseudo()` is a smoothed form of `huber_loss()` (@blairj09, #71). * `smape()` is a numeric metric that is based on percentage errors (@riazhedayati, #67). * `conf_mat` objects now have two `ggplot2::autoplot()` methods for easy visualization of the confusion matrix as either a heat map or a mosaic plot (@EmilHvitfeldt, #10). ## Other improvements * `metric_set()` now returns a classed function. If numeric metrics are used, a `"numeric_metric_set"` function is returned. If class or probability metrics are used, a `"class_prob_metric_set"` is returned. ## Bug fixes * Tests related to the fixed R 3.6 `sample()` function have been fixed. * `f_meas()` propagates `NA` values from `precision()` and `recall()` correctly (#77). * All `"micro"` estimators now propagate `NA` values through correctly. * `roc_auc(estimator = "hand_till")` now correctly computes the metric when the column names of the probability matrix are not the exact same as the levels of `truth`. Note that the computation still assumes that the order of the supplied probability matrix columns still matches the order of `levels(truth)`, like other multiclass metrics (#86). # yardstick 0.0.2 ## Breaking changes A desire to standardize the yardstick API is what drove these breaking changes. The output of each metric is now in line with tidy principles, returning a tibble rather than a single numeric. Additionally, all metrics now have a standard argument list so you should be able to switch between metrics and combine them together effortlessly. * All metrics now return a tibble rather than a single numeric value. This format allows metrics to work with grouped data frames (for resamples). It also allows you to bundle multiple metrics together with a new function, `metric_set()`. * For all class probability metrics, now only 1 column can be passed to `...` when a binary implementation is used. Those metrics will no longer select only the first column when multiple columns are supplied, and will instead throw an error. * The `summary()` method for `conf_mat` objects now returns a tibble to be consistent with the change to the metric functions. * For naming consistency, `mnLogLoss()` was renamed to `mn_log_loss()` * `mn_log_loss()` now returns the **negative** log loss for the multinomial distribution. * The argument `na.rm` has been changed to `na_rm` in all metrics to align with the `tidymodels` model implementation principles. ## Core features * Each metric now has a vector interface to go alongside the data frame interface. All vector functions end in `_vec()`. The vector interface accepts vector/matrix inputs and returns a single numeric value. * Multiclass support has been added for each classification metric. The support varies from one metric to the next, but generally macro and micro averaging is available for all metrics, with some metrics having specialized multiclass implementations (for example, `roc_auc()` supports the multiclass generalization presented in a paper by Hand and Till). For more information, see `vignette("multiclass", "yardstick")`. * All metrics now work with grouped data frames. This produces a tibble with as many rows as there are groups, and is useful when used alongside resampling techniques. ## New metrics and functionality * `mape()` calculates the mean absolute percent error. * `kap()` is a metric similar to `accuracy()` that calculates Cohen's kappa. * `detection_prevalence()` calculates the number of predicted positive events relative to the total number of predictions. * `bal_accuracy()` calculates balanced accuracy as the average of sensitivity and specificity. * `roc_curve()` calculates receiver operator curves and returns the results as a tibble. * `pr_curve()` calculates precision recall curves. * `gain_curve()` and `lift_curve()` calculate the information used in gain and lift curves. * `gain_capture()` is a measure of performance similar in spirit to AUC but applied to a gain curve. * `pr_curve()`, `roc_curve()`, `gain_curve()` and `lift_curve()` all have `ggplot2::autoplot()` methods for easy visualization. * `metric_set()` constructs functions that calculate multiple metrics at once. ## Other improvements * The infrastructure for creating metrics has been exposed to allow users to extend yardstick to work with their own metrics. You might want to do this if you want your metrics to work with grouped data frames out of the box, or if you want the standardization and error checking that yardstick already provides. See `vignette("custom-metrics", "yardstick")` for a few examples. * A vignette describing the three classes of metrics used in yardstick has been added. It also includes a list of every metric available, grouped by class. See `vignette("metric-types", "yardstick")`. * The error messages in yardstick should now be much more informative, with better feedback about the types of input that each metric can use and about what kinds of metrics can be used together (i.e. in `metric_set()`). * There is now a `grouped_df` method for `conf_mat()` that returns a tibble with a list column of `conf_mat` objects. * Each metric now has its own help page. This allows us to better document the nuances of each metric without cluttering the help pages of other metrics. ## Dependencies * `broom` has been removed from Depends, and is replaced by `generics` in Suggests. * `tidyr` and `ggplot2` have been moved to Suggests. * `MLmetrics` has been removed as a dependency. # yardstick 0.0.1 * First CRAN release