Explorer CE Release Notes
Current Version: 23.12.28.1 ***23.12.28.1***
Explorer CE Version 23.12.28.1
released Dec 28, 2023, 17:45 US Central Time, 23:45 GMT
Issues Addressed in this release of 23.12.28.1
- Added heat map to association analysis
- Improved error handling
Explorer CE Version 23.9.4.1
released Sept 4, 2023, 12:30 US Central Time, 17:30 GMT
Issues Addressed in this release of 23.9.4.1
- Added quick-links to web tutorials on menu pull-down commands
- Improved error handling
- Improved bundling of assembly
Explorer CE Version 23.8.30.1
released August 30, 2023, 23:00 US Central Time, 04:00 GMT
Issues Addressed in this release of 23.8.30.1
- Improved garbage-collection of graphics objects
- Improved error handling
- Incorporated automatic detection of updates on startup
- Improved superresolution root MUSIC
- Improved 3D graphics for unsuperivised runs
- Improved image/graphics file handling
- Improved folder cleanup method
Explorer CE Version 23.4.10.1
released April 11, 2023, 16:25 US Central Time, 09:25 GMT
Issues Addressed in this release of 23.4.10.1
- Migrated from .NET Framework to .NET 7.0, which runs much faster
- Improved garbage-collection of disposed classes
- Improved error handling during Monte Carlo (MC) simulations
- Improved error handling if users specifies one variable for MC runs. Two variable are required because correlation is used
- Improved form dialog-based closure
- Implemented Cheng-Feast and Ahrens-Dieter-Best algorithms for Gamma distribution simulation
- Smoother Gamma distribution simulations
- Fixed textbox inputs during manual data input for MC simulations
- Fixed issue related to datagrid errors during MC simulation
- Fixed issue related to Gamma distribution input
- Fixed issue related to matrix plot generation if user specifies one feature during MC
- Significantly improved speed of empical cumulative distribution fitting (ECDF)
- Augmented ECDF with generalized extreme value and Dagum (Type II) probability distributions
- Improved error handling if user specifies one feature during covariance/correlation/distance analysis
- Fixed issue related to default preferences for creating new features during unsupervised class dicovery runs
- Improved thread handling during unsupervised class discovery runs
- Fixed issue regarding class assignment during CKM cluster analysis
- Fixed error related to cancelling threads during unsupervised class discovery analysis
- Improved heatmap colors during unsupervised analysis
- Fixed error that occurred during sentiment mining if learned words equals 1 or 2
- Improved error handling when importing Excel worksheets
- Improved polar overlap plots during unsupervised analysis
- Set default distance to Euclidean for all NMF runs
- Improved progress bar rendering
- Implemented quasi-diagonalization of correlation matrix
- Better detection and removal of empty trailing rows in input Excel files
- Distance metrics now listed with HCA output icons
- Added legend for classes at bottom of polar overlap plots
- Parallelized t-SNE to run substantially faster
- Double-buffered icon treeview (left panel) to remove flickering
- Minimized flickering of workflow paths during run-time
- Improved progressbar handling in text mining
- Implemented WebView2 tool to render HTML tables
- All figures/images/plots are now zoomable and scrollable
- Improved rendering of images
- Improved error handling for merging Excel files
- Added XY plots for empirical cumulative distribution function and best fitted cdf in Monte Carlo simulations
- Improved handling of fatal errors (unhandled exceptions) via user options to save data if icons or imported data present in memory
- Implemented fast CSV file viewer. No longer dependent on user's licensed Excel installation
- Improved font usage during graphics generation
- Improved memory management before and after graphics generation
Explorer CE Version 22.8.28.1
released August 28, 2022, 14:25 US Central Time, 19:25 GMT
Issues Addressed in this release of 22.8.28.1
- Fixed issue related to default filename extension when importing MS Access databases
- Added highlighting to selected commands of pull-down menus
- Added several additional files to user's data folder (in Documents folder)
- Synchronized default filenames with intended filename extension
- Improved error handling when standard deviation of zero is input during Monte Carlo runs
- Fixed issue related to intermittent form display when opening previously used projects
Explorer CE Version 22.8.23.1
released August 23, 2022, 17:07 US Central Time, 22:07 GMT
Issues Addressed in this release of 22.8.23.1
- Substantially improved import speed for large files (e.g., 655 features, 10000 observations)
- Added warning to prevent import of files with more than 655 features
Explorer CE Version 22.8.20.1
released August 20, 2022
Issues Addressed in this release of 22.8.20.1
- Fixed issue with tail probabilities in Correlation analysis
- Fixed issue related to printing classnames and category levels in proportions test output
Explorer CE Version 22.8.16.1
released August 16, 2022
Issues Addressed in this release of 22.8.16.1
- Improved program flow for Monte Carlo simulations
- Improved error handling during file import (Excel)
Explorer CE Version 22.8.12.1
released August 12, 2022
Issues Addressed in this release of 22.8.12.1
- Improved memory management
- Errors now reported to server (upon user approval)
- Improved error handling for:
- -- File export (Excel, csv, tab-delimited)
- -- Data modification (labels, transforms)
- Prevention of race conditions when running multiple (identical) unsupervised modules
- Improved data grid handling
- NMMDS now runs Manhattan distance by default with 5,000 iterations ("All models" run)
- Workflow templates enhanced with example runs from most User Guide chapters
Explorer CE Version 22.7.6.1
released July 6, 2022
Issues Addressed in this release of 22.7.6.1
- User options for working directory (Local, Roaming, Custom)
- Workflow options enhanced
- Improved step-halving for gradient-descent
- Save/Open options for collaboration
- Longitudinal regression (GEE) included