Mastering categorical variables: Techniques and best practices for predictive modeling

Nilimesh Halder, PhD
Analyst’s corner
Published in
5 min readMay 14, 2023

--

Introduction: Handling categorical variables in predictive modeling

Categorical variables play a crucial role in many real-world datasets, as they represent non-numeric information such as categories, labels, or groups. However, most predictive modeling algorithms require…

--

--