(Mostly Binary) encoder

Inspired by http://www.willmcginnis.com/2015/11/29/beyond-one-hot-an-exploration-of-categorical-variables/

Setup categorical_encoder package

$ python setup.py install

Usage

import categorical_encoder
encoder_service = categorical_encoder.EncoderService(encoder_type='binary')
print encoder_service.fit_transform(
    X=[
        ['red', 'car'],
        ['blue', 'car'],
        ['green', 'plane']
    ]
)

[[1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 1, 1]]

Setup demo

$ ./setup.sh

Run demo

$ ./run_demo.sh