Exercise

Create a label encoding and map

A used car company believes that they can predict a car's sales price reasonably well using their used_cars dataset. One of the variables they want to use, "color", needs to be converted to codes. The company believes that a car's color will be important when predicting sales price.

Instructions 1/4

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- Convert the color column to a categorical Series.
2
- Create a new column, "color_code", by creating a label encoding for the variable "color".
3
- Before you forget which codes belong to which categories, create a color map using the codes and categories objects.
4
- Print the new color map to see which codes map to which categories.