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Top Notch Categorical Encoding using Python

Rahul Bhatia

Rahul Bhatia

Machine Learning Engineer, Rakuten
Rahul Bhatia works as a Machine Learning Engineer at Rakuten, one of the largest E-Commerce companies in Japan, and one of the most diversified companies globally, his primary focus involves deriving useful business insights from large datasets, and helping organisations generate business value and revenue using a data-driven approach. Prior to this, he has spoken at PyCon MY 2019 on Interpretable Machine Learning using Python.

Categorical variables are quite common in Data Science.Properly dealing with them is crucial for model performance.The talk will be super-practical, provide a broad view of a wide number of approaches at your disposal, and give some ideas about what to try in different situations, to ensure optimal performance.