One hot encoding
In the video, you saw how the 'State' feature can be encoded numerically using the technique of one hot encoding:
Doing this manually would be quite tedious, especially when you have 50 states and over 3000 customers! Fortunately, pandas has a get_dummies() function which automatically applies one hot encoding over the selected feature.
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Marketing Analytics: Predicting Customer Churn in Python
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Testa den här övningen genom att slutföra den här exempelkoden.
# Import pandas
import pandas as pd
# Perform one hot encoding on 'State'
telco_state = ____.____(____)