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Provide example of many-to-many relationship

Open kmax12 opened this issue 8 years ago • 4 comments

In situations where we want to run Deep Feature Synthesis for a dataset that has a many-to-many relationship we need to create an extra association entity to handle the mapping. Featuretools supports this use case, but it could be more clear to users of the library if we provided an example either in the documentation on in a demo like the ones we have on the website.

kmax12 avatar Dec 29 '17 23:12 kmax12

I would like to officially ask for this, or even just have a better description of what "association entity" would mean.

Considering that the documentation says "When specifying relationships we list the variable in the parent entity first. Note that each ft.Relationship must denote a one-to-many relationship rather than a relationship which is one-to-one or many-to-many." it would make things a lot clearer.

A full fledged example like the demo notebooks is not super necessary, but I would like to see a simple example of the many-to-many organization.

dylanking42 avatar Jul 16 '18 19:07 dylanking42

Any update on this use case ?

jbdouet avatar Jun 17 '19 07:06 jbdouet

Any update on this use case or example notebook??

rightx2 avatar Nov 17 '20 12:11 rightx2

@asniyaz Let's prioritize this issue and put it in an upcoming sprint.

gsheni avatar Mar 17 '22 18:03 gsheni