Categorical Variables

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In this tutorial, you will learn what a **categorical variable** is, along with three approaches for handling this type of data. Introduction A **categorical variable** takes only a limited number of ...

Categorical Variables

Kaggle Learn Courses

In this tutorial, you will learn what a **categorical variable** is, along with three approaches for handling this type of data. Introduction A **categorical variable** takes only a limited number of ...

Categorical Variable Encoding Techniques

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A categorical variable is one that has two or more categories (values). There are two types of categorical variable, nominal and ordinal. A nominal variable has no intrinsic ordering to its…

Categorical Variable Regression using R

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Variables that classify observations into categories are categorical variables (also known as factors or qualitative variables). They have a limited number, called levels, of different value. The…

Categorical variables: How to encode them and why?

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Categorical variables can be encoded either through ordinal (1, 2, 3, …) or one-hot (001, 010, 100, …) encoding schemes. For categorical variables that do not have any relevant ordering present, for…

What are categorical variables and how to encode them?

Towards Data Science

In this article, we will explain what categorical variables are and we will learn the difference between different types of them. We will discuss: Finally, we will learn what are the best methods for…...

Categorical data

Pandas User Guide

Categorical data This is an introduction to pandas categorical data type, including a short comparison with R’s factor . Categoricals are a pandas data type corresponding to categorical variables in s...

All about Categorical Variable Encoding

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Most of the Machine learning algorithms can not handle categorical variables unless we convert them to numerical values. Many algorithm’s performances vary based on how Categorical variables are…

Effective Categorical Variable Encoding for Machine Learning

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Image by DCStudio on Freepik A categorical variable is a common type of data found in many machine learning datasets. Effective handling of categorical variables can be crucial for building successful...

How to Deal with Categorical Features for Machine Learning

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A categorical variable, as the name suggests, is used to represent categories or labels. For instance, a categorical variable could represent major cities in the world, the four seasons in a year, or…...

One-Hot Encoding Categorical Variables — What is it? Why is it? How is it?

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A brief explanation of what are categorical variables, how to deal with them using One-Hot Encoding, and how to code them in just eleven lines of code in Python. Categorical Variables contain values…

A Drive To Tests On Categorical Data

Towards Data Science

Categorical data analysis is the analysis of data where the response variable is grouped into a set of mutually exclusive ordered (such as credit score group) or unordered (such as type of loan)…