It's been a while since I have been turning my son's sleepless nights into coffee-fueled productivity boosters.
The last result of this deep sleep-deprivation state is the post "Mapping Categorical Predictors to Numeric With Target Encoding": https://www.blasbenito.com/post/target-encoding/
If you are annoyed by categorical predictors in your data or have heard about "target-encoding" but don't know what it is, this post might interest you!
#Rstats #DataScience
The last result of this deep sleep-deprivation state is the post "Mapping Categorical Predictors to Numeric With Target Encoding": https://www.blasbenito.com/post/target-encoding/
If you are annoyed by categorical predictors in your data or have heard about "target-encoding" but don't know what it is, this post might interest you!
#Rstats #DataScience
Mapping Categorical Predictors to Numeric With Target Encoding
Target encoding is commonly used to map categorical variables to numeric with the objective of facilitating exploratory data analysis and machine learning modeling. This post covers the basics of this method, and explains how and when to use it.Blas M. Benito (Blas M. Benito, PhD)