<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm pleased to announce the release of BigBang v0.40: Syzygy!</div><div><br></div><div>Development of this release was supported by the Prototype Fund.</div><div>It was a very solid release, with progress on both the software quality fundamentals -- tests, documentation, code organization -- and new features -- data sources and analytic toolkits. We're further along the way to a 1.0.0 release than ever before!</div><div><br></div><div>Congratulations to all of us for this important milestone.<br></div><div><ul><li>Robust ListServ data ingress <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/460">#460</a>  <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/459">#459</a> <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/457">#457</a></li><li>New ReadTheDocs/Sphinx based documentation: domain name and organization metadata <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/414">#414</a> <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/499">#499</a> <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/548">#548</a></li><li>New code submodule organization</li><li>3GPP  analysis <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/465">#465</a></li><li><code>datasets</code> submodule for ancillary data <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/509">#509</a></li><li>Integration of IETF datatracker source and analysis of IETF attendance data <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/368">#368</a> <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/560">#560</a> <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/434">#434</a></li><li>IETF draft analysis <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/370">#370</a></li><li>Tools to identify the institution of email senders <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/25">#25</a></li><li>Improved test coverage <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/343">#343</a></li><li>Change from nose to unittest for testing framework <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/366">#366</a></li><li>Updates and corrections to example notebooks <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/364">#364</a></li><li>Bug fixes <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/538">#538</a> <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/553">#553</a> <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/555">#555</a> <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/390">#390</a></li><li>Preliminary work towards entity resolution <a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/405">#405</a></li></ul></div></div>