Categorical Data
Explore how to handle categorical data by converting text categories into numeric forms suitable for machine learning. Learn label encoding to assign numeric codes and one-hot encoding to create binary columns. This lesson helps you clean and prepare categorical variables for analysis.
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Introduction to categorical data #
Sometimes you get categorical data which are variables with a limited and usually fixed number of values. For example, male and female. Machine learning algorithms need numbers to work, so how do you deal with these? ...