Encoding & Scaling for Models — Roadmap Step & Resources
Preparing categorical and numeric features for algorithms that need them in specific forms
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Data Science
Before this step
Study resources
- Encoding categorical features (Article) — The official scikit-learn documentation on encoding and scaling features.
- Categorical Encoding Explained (Video) — A practical walkthrough of one-hot, label and target encoding.
Part of
- Feature Engineering & Data Preparation for Modeling — section
- Data Science roadmap — the full learning path