MindsDB November Product Updates and Community Shoutouts

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Lots of improvements, integrations, and bug fixes as a result of the Hacktoberfest Hackathon and we are grateful for how involved you all were!

New features and improvements:

• New documentation available at https://docs.mindsdb.com/
• New Projects feature, which is a virtual database that helps to organize all of the models and views.
• New model tagging and managing versions features
• New python packages for type inference and data preparation.
• New "Create Model" syntax ("Predictor" is supported as well)

New data handlers:

• Databend
• Solr
• Impala
• Google Sheets
• TDEngine
• OrioleDB
• StarRocks
• Oceanbase
• Vitess
• OpenGauss

New ML engines:

• Hugging Face
• Merlion

Bug fixes:

• Fixed RETRAIN model issue
• Fixed issues with reading CSV files

Community Shoutouts

With Halloween and Thanksgiving behind us we would like to highlight the following contributions during November:

• Balaji Seetharaman for adding support for Atlassian Jira
• Nelson He for adding support for OpenGauss
• Nguyen Huu Bach for implementing database materialization in dbt-mindsdb.

THANK YOU 💚

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