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We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to dssg/eights to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
14
Forks
2
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
13
Dominant language
Python
License
No license data
Last GitHub push
Sep 23, 2015
Latest indexed
Sep 15, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to dssg/eights

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • make sure we have good coverage in test_modify
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dssg/eights#84 ·

  • % accuracy
    Open
    question

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    dssg/eights#82 ·

  • If we remove a column thru a lambda, we should return the list of col_names that were removed.
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dssg/eights#81 ·

  • Being considerate to the user in test suite
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    dssg/eights#78 ·

  • fail gracefully with multi label.
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dssg/eights#73 · 1 comment ·

  • Problem with multiple joins
    Open
    wontfix

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    dssg/eights#61 ·

  • deal with missing trailing zeros
    Open
    wontfix

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dssg/eights#56 · 2 comments ·

  • Timeit value returned on every step of the paaramter sweep
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    dssg/eights#42 · 1 comment ·

  • we need a timeout feature.
    Open
    wontfix

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dssg/eights#34 · 1 comment ·

  • when we truncate rows, we should also remove the corresponding labels and return it
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dssg/eights#26 · 1 comment ·

  • per Rayid, make erros labels, train decision tree on errors to see what factors predict erros
    Open
    question

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    dssg/eights#22 · 1 comment ·

  • Experiment tree interface tweaking
    Open
    question

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dssg/eights#18 ·

  • Add the regular sort of ROC
    Open
    question

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dssg/eights#12 · 1 comment ·

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