Guide to Encoding Categorical Values in Python - Practical Business Python

Taking care of business, one python script at a time Introduction In many practical Data Science activities, the data set will contain categorical variables. These variables are typically stored as text values which represent various traits. Some examples include color (“Red”, “Yellow”, “Blue”), size (“Small”, “Medium”, “Large”) or geographic designations (State or Country). Regardless of what the

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“Advanced Approaches ” https://github.com/scikit-learn-contrib/categorical-encoding