Data and feature engineering · MLD-0852
Ordinal encoding
Representing categories with integer codes.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Encode ordered education levels numerically.
Original caveat
Arbitrary codes can falsely suggest numerical order.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Data · Training · Evaluation.
Tags: ML · DL · SLM · LLM.
Aliases: None recorded.
Related concepts
Concepts linking here
Original references
- scikit-learn: cross-validation ↗ · Reference link
- scikit-learn: missing-value imputation ↗ · Reference link
- scikit-learn: preprocessing ↗ · Reference link
- scikit-learn: feature selection ↗ · Reference link
- Original reference URL ↗