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Categorical encodings

Your colleague has converted the columns in the credit dataset to numeric values using LabelEncoder(). He left one out: credit_history, which records the credit history of the applicant. You want to create two versions of the dataset. One will use LabelEncoder() and another one-hot encoding, for comparison purposes. The feature matrix is available to you as credit. You have LabelEncoder() preloaded and pandas as pd.

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Designing Machine Learning Workflows in Python

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Instructions

  • Encode credit_history using LabelEncoder().
  • Concatenate the result to the original frame.
  • Create a new data frame by concatenating the 1-hot encoding dummies to the original frame.
  • Confirm that 1-hot encoding produces more columns than label encoding.

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# Create numeric encoding for credit_history
credit_history_num = ____.____(
  credit[____])

# Create a new feature matrix including the numeric encoding
X_num = pd.concat([X, pd.Series(____)], ____)

# Create new feature matrix with dummies for credit_history
X_hot = pd.concat(
  [X, ____.____(credit[____])], ____)

# Compare the number of features of the resulting DataFrames
print(X_hot.shape[____] > X_num.shape[____])
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