The Data Science Lab Data Prep for Machine Learning: Encoding Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full code program and screenshots to explain how to programmatically encode categorical ...

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Feature engineering involves systematically transforming raw data into meaningful and informative features (predictors). It is an indispensable process in machine learning and data science. This ...

This article explains how to programmatically encode categorical data for use with a machine learning (ML) prediction model such as a neural network classification or regression system. Suppose you ...