Blog post: Top-X new features in Kedro 0.19 series

[merelcht]

Description

Write a snappy blog post highlighting the top-X (5-10) features that we've introduced in the 0.19.X series in Kedro Framework.
Many users don't read the release notes and therefore aren't aware of the features we've introduced. It's also not obvious from reading the notes what benefits a user can gain from upgrading to the latest series. This post is meant to market several of our more recent features.

[astrojuanlu]

+1. We've done something like this, but in video format (we never wrote said blog post) and it was 6 months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_KSUBLO3a4 I highlighted

• New project creation flow
• Simpler way of using Kedro interactively
• New %load_node magic function

There has been plenty of new things since.

[merelcht]

Ideas for features to highlight:

• Implemented key completion support for accessing datasets in the DataCatalog.
• Implemented dataset pretty printing.
• Implemented DataCatalog pretty printing.
• Kedro commands now work from any subdirectory within a Kedro project.
• Added the --telemetry flag to kedro new, allowing the user to register consent to have user analytics collected at the same time as the project is created.
• Create the debugging line magic %load_node for Jupyter Notebook and Jupyter Lab.
• Introduced project tools and example to the kedro new CLI flow.
• Added the functionality to choose a merging strategy for config files loaded with OmegaConfigLoader.
• Removal of dependencies
• Mention to kedro-datasets & OmegaConfigLoader ?

[merelcht]

I've changed the scope a bit to be the top 10 features in all of the Kedro ecosystem released in 2024. Draft is ready for review on Notion.