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TomFinley opened this issue Jan 7, 2019 · 0 comments
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Gentle suggestion for missing columns? #2050

TomFinley opened this issue Jan 7, 2019 · 0 comments
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TomFinley commented Jan 7, 2019

Often times, we have a method that takes some input with a default column names as inputs... e.g., Label and Features for trainers, Label and Score for evaluators, and so on, and so on. Indeed this was the subject of a discussion in issue #1524.

In these situations, it might be helpful if the error message, in addition to saying, "we could not find column Foo" might provide a gentle parenthetical suggestion along the lines of "(Did you remember to actually produce that column, or did you perhaps name it something else?)" might help get people thinking in the "right" direction.

Less sure about this one.

/cc @stephentoub

@TomFinley TomFinley added API Issues pertaining the friendly API usability Smoothing user interaction or experience labels Jan 7, 2019
@ganik ganik added the P3 Doc bugs, questions, minor issues, etc. label Jan 10, 2020
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