Statistics Spotlight: One Hot Dummy
Statistics Spotlight: One Hot Dummy
The deal with decoding categorical data
- Publication:
- Quality Progress
- Date:
- July 2024
- Issue:
- Volume 57 Issue 7
- Pages:
- pp. 48-51
- Author(s):
- Seaman, Christopher A., Allen, I. Elaine, Seaman, Julia E.
- Organization(s):
- University of California, San Francisco, University of California, San Francisco, Bay View Analytics, Oakland, CA.
Abstract
In everyday analysis, often we come across categorical data such as color, region or any other method of grouping observations together. One-hot encoding is a straightforward method to turn these categories into numbers that a computer can understand.
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