Dylan Sherry

@chukarsten what's the priority on this?

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This should start in woodwork, let's confirm with @gsheni and co where this stands. After that... we need to talk to @thehomebrewnerd @frances-h @rwedge about what they had to do...

Agreed! It would help to have a specific dataset for which this approach is beneficial. This issue tracks adding a component for this; we should test it in automl separately.

Makes sense. Alternate proposal for behavior here: rather than conditioning shutdown on whether or not the engine info was provided via a client instance vs a string, what if we...

@bchen1116 got it, agreed having a data check which raises a warning if there's a ton of unknown-typed features would be helpful. Not required to support unknown types in evalml...

We agree it would be helpful to have a data check which alerts users if they're trying to model with _any_ unknown-typed columns. The "unknown" type is intended to designate...

@ParthivNaresh please either assign yourself or move this out of "In Progress"

Added "needs design" because we should write out how this would be used. Need user to be able to select which categorical features have an ordering vs those which don't...

Note @angela97lin did some testing of this for #2093. It looked promising.