How to Handle Cyclical Data in Machine Learning

Don’t one-hot encode date information. Do this instead.

Today we’ll look at a common but poorly understood topic in data science — cyclical data. It’s a part of many datasets and is easily spottable — date information is the most common form. There are plenty of approaches to encode date information to something machine-learning-friendly, but some are better than others.

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