[Feature Request] Smarter variable type inference

[rohan-gt]

Is it possible to add smarter variable type inference to detect all the different variable types that Featuretools supports like PhoneNumber, ZipCode etc. using regex or other rules?

[kmax12]

this is something we've been thinking about. i think it breaks into 2 categories, both of which would be valuable

1. validation - does the data match the variable type
2. inference - can we automatically determine and parse the correct type without user input

i think validation might be a bit easier to start with and would give us a starting point to think about how to do inference

[rohan-gt]

Hmm validation could be done based on a random sample or to be more thorough scan all values and using a confidence threshold although the latter might be computationally expensive