Description
Shubh Chatterjee
https://2020.pycon.org.au/program/M3HPHA
When developing a predictive machine learning model for a tabular data problem, we are normally inundated with variety of predictive features to try out.The features are a blend of numerical and categorical features.When handling the categorical features normally an analysts defaults to the most convenient method or most documented method on the web or on stack-overflow forums.But this is where there is a high possibility of missing out on significant predictive gain by representing a feature to an algorithm in a format where it adds the most to overall predictive efficiency .
This talk aims to share a quick overview of categorical encoding techniques and some time-tested intuitions on when to use what.
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Sat Sep 5 16:00:00 2020 at Floperator