Consider renaming `Standardize`

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Imputation methods for missing data in julia

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Consider renaming `Standardize` #76

Closed rofinn closed 3 years ago

rofinn commented 3 years ago

Naming things is hard. Standardize, normalize, canonicalize are all really generic terms, so maybe we can think of an appropriate name specific to missings?

https://github.com/invenia/Impute.jl/pull/69#discussion_r502623561

nickrobinson251 commented 3 years ago

possible options with missing in the name:

Missingify
MakeMissing, UseMissing, AsMissing, ToMissing, SpecifyMissing, DeclareMissing
MissingValue / MissingValues

nickrobinson251 commented 3 years ago

puns on making things "go missing":

Erase, Hide, Remove, Clean, Cleanse, Mask
Refine, Rarefy

nickrobinson251 commented 3 years ago

Naming things is hard.

rofinn commented 3 years ago

Could also have a function called stdmis and a type named StandardizeMissings?

nickrobinson251 commented 3 years ago

MissingValues((NaN, -9999.0, 0.0)) and DeclareMissing((NaN, -9999.0, 0.0)) both seem better to me

rofinn commented 3 years ago

I guess declaremissings would kinda fit with allowmissings?