Vectorizing text
You'll now transform the volunteer dataset's title column into a text vector, which you'll use in a prediction task in the next exercise.
This exercise is part of the course
Preprocessing for Machine Learning in Python
Exercise instructions
- Store the
volunteer["title"]column in a variable namedtitle_text. - Instantiate a
TfidfVectorizerastfidf_vec. - Transform the text in
title_textinto a tf-idf vector usingtfidf_vec.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Take the title text
title_text = ____
# Create the vectorizer method
tfidf_vec = ____
# Transform the text into tf-idf vectors
text_tfidf = tfidf_vec.____(____)