Reshaping DataFrames with Dummies

Various patterns pop up when we start analyzing data, giving us the tools that we need to deal with them.

Dummy columns

Creating dummy columns is one way to convert a categorical column into numeric columns. The process is straightforward. If we have a column that has repeated string values, we can create a new column for each of those values and insert a 1 or a 0 in each new column if it corresponds to the original value.

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