Github user srowen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4460#issuecomment-75170753
Call it `AttributeType` maybe?
So if an `AttributeGroup` contains both `Attribute`s but also vector-valued
columns, which sound like `AttributeGroup`s within themselves. That's why it
seemed like `AttributeGroup` should be an `Attribute` or at least share a
common superclass? then I didn't know what to call it and it seemed like
overkill. That was the logic behind `AttributeGroup extends Attribute` -- WDYT?
As for hierarchy that's all I can think of. Ordinal extends discrete
extends continuous; binary extends, well, discrete and categorical I suppose.
Hm, I'd imagine most categorical features come in as strings. This feels
like just the kind of thing a framework can accommodate if it has the type
information. I don't think it's more or less complex to say that a string
column can be categorical? It would take some work to inject a translation to
integers where that's needed but that's great if the framework can do that.
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