Categorical Data
Explore how to analyze categorical data by examining features like Store Type and Department in a retail dataset. Understand the importance of data types for model training and learn to convert boolean values into integers for use in machine learning models.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Chapter Goals:
- Analyze the categorical features in the dataset
A. The dataset format
When using the dataset to train a machine learning model, each feature needs to be an integer, float, or string type. The float data is the numeric data, i.e. the data that can be quantified and analyzed using operations like ...