Method get_column_pair_plot: Does not plot synthetic data if datetime column is formatted as a string

[npatki]

Environment Details

• SDMetrics version: 0.9.1
• Python version: Any
• Operating System: Any

Error Description

Starting from SDV 1.0, users will provide a new metadata format. The current version of SDMetrics (0.9.1) already supports this format.

However, I am having an issue when the datetime columns are present in a string format such as: "27 Dec 2020" (format string ="%d %b %Y")

Steps to reproduce

Replicate using SDV 1.0

from sdv.datasets.demo import download_demo
from sdv.lite import SingleTablePreset
from sdv.evaluation.single_table import get_column_pair_plot

real_data, metadata = download_demo(
    modality='single_table',
    dataset_name='fake_hotel_guests'
)

synthesizer = SingleTablePreset(metadata, name='FAST_ML')
synthesizer.fit(real_data)
synthetic_data = synthesizer.sample(num_rows=500)

fig = get_column_pair_plot(
    real_data=real_data,
    synthetic_data=synthetic_data,
    column_names=['checkin_date', 'amenities_fee'],
    metadata=metadata
)

Observe that only the real data shows up in the plot. The synthetic data is missing: