Statistics
One-Hot Encoding Simply Explained
Published in
3 min readSep 12, 2021
Introduction
Categorical data is highly useful and appears in nearly every industry and dataset. However, the majority of machine learning algorithms only operate with numeric data because at its fundamentals, computers can only read 1s and 0s. Therefore, we need a method that maps this categoric data into numeric data, so that it can be implemented in…