What is One-Hot Encoding and how to use Pandas get_dummies function

A complete One-Hot Encoding tutorial for beginners

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I get questions all the time about some concepts in machine learning and what they really mean, for example, in one of my previous articles Google’s 7 steps of Machine Learning in practice, I get asked what is one-hot encoding, and when should we use it? That’s is a…