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An Easier Way to Encode Categorical Features

Using the python category encoder library to handle high cardinality variables in machine learning

Rebecca Vickery
Towards Data Science
4 min readOct 12, 2019

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I have recently been working on a machine learning project which had several categorical features. Many of these features were high cardinality, or in other words, had a high number of unique values. The simplest method of…

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