Encoding

DATA PREPROCESSINGSix ways of matchmaking categories and numbers10 min read·19 hours agoAh, categorical data — the colourful characters in our datasets that machines just can’t seem to grasp. That is where “red” becomes 1,...

Why we are able to’t arbitrarily encode categorical featuresIt’s well-known that many machine learning models can’t process categorical features natively. While there are some exceptions, it’s normally as much as the practitioner to come...