Merge pull request #57 from weikang9009/release

add changelog for the release 1.2.0

CHANGELOG.txt

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+v<1.2.0>, 2018-07-27
+
+This release features:
+* a more flexible specification for the [spatial Markov
+chains model](https://github.com/pysal/giddy/blob/master/giddy/markov.py#L169).
+More specifically, for continuous time series input:
+    * both the numbers of classifications for input continuous time series (k) and spatial lags (m) can be specified and allowed to be different
+    * user-defined classifications (cutoffs) for input continuous time series and spatial lags are allowed
+* new visualization tools:
+    * relies on [pysal/splot](https://github.com/pysal/splot) for [visualizing
+    Dynamic LISA related statistics](https://github.com/pysal/giddy/blob/master/giddy/directional.py#L322)
+* launch of the [documentation website](http://giddy.readthedocs.io/)
+
+GitHub stats for 2018/05/18 - 2018/07/27
+
+These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.
+
+We closed a total of 34 issues, 16 pull requests and 18 regular issues;
+this is the full list (generated with the script
+:file:`tools/github_stats.py`):
+
+Pull Requests (16):
+
+* :ghpull:`56`: b'prepare for release 1.2.0'
+* :ghpull:`55`: b'set up dual travis tests for libpysal (pip and github)'
+* :ghpull:`54`: b'ENH: Allow for more flexible specification of Spatial Markov'
+* :ghpull:`52`: b'Update notebooks to rely on geopandas for mapping'
+* :ghpull:`51`: b'ENH to docs'
+* :ghpull:`50`: b'include /tests in the release and correct for the directional doctests'
+* :ghpull:`49`: b'add doc building badge to README'
+* :ghpull:`47`: b'Tests and documentation for `rose.plot()` and `rose.plot_vectors()`'
+* :ghpull:`48`: b'A tentative version of giddy documentation website with sphinx '
+* :ghpull:`46`: b'force utf8 for the install description read'
+* :ghpull:`43`: b'implement `rose.plot()` and `rose.plot_vectors()` method using `splot`'
+* :ghpull:`44`: b'More on building doc webpages using sphinx'
+* :ghpull:`42`: b'Gallery'
+* :ghpull:`41`: b'new features for sphinx documentation website'
+* :ghpull:`40`: b'typo - email notifications'
+* :ghpull:`38`: b'fix for python 3'
+
+Issues (18):
+
+* :ghissue:`56`: b'prepare for release 1.2.0'
+* :ghissue:`55`: b'set up dual travis tests for libpysal (pip and github)'
+* :ghissue:`54`: b'ENH: Allow for more flexible specification of Spatial Markov'
+* :ghissue:`52`: b'Update notebooks to rely on geopandas for mapping'
+* :ghissue:`51`: b'ENH to docs'
+* :ghissue:`50`: b'include /tests in the release and correct for the directional doctests'
+* :ghissue:`49`: b'add doc building badge to README'
+* :ghissue:`47`: b'Tests and documentation for `rose.plot()` and `rose.plot_vectors()`'
+* :ghissue:`48`: b'A tentative version of giddy documentation website with sphinx '
+* :ghissue:`45`: b'encoding issue in  README.rst'
+* :ghissue:`46`: b'force utf8 for the install description read'
+* :ghissue:`43`: b'implement `rose.plot()` and `rose.plot_vectors()` method using `splot`'
+* :ghissue:`44`: b'More on building doc webpages using sphinx'
+* :ghissue:`42`: b'Gallery'
+* :ghissue:`41`: b'new features for sphinx documentation website'
+* :ghissue:`40`: b'typo - email notifications'
+* :ghissue:`38`: b'fix for python 3'
+* :ghissue:`39`: b'first draft of sphinx gallery'
+
+
 v<1.1.1>, 2018-05-17
 
 This release is the first tagged release of giddy on Github.
@@ -44,3 +107,4 @@ Issues (12):
 * :ghissue:`25`: b'[WIP] prepare for full metapackage integration'
 * :ghissue:`27`: b'api module for giddy'
 * :ghissue:`12`: b'Publish on PyPi'
+