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Classes of features

An overview of the main classes of data you might use in machine learning.

This video gives an overview of the main classes of data you might use in machine learning.

This includes:

  • numerical
  • Boolean (true or false)
  • frequency of appearance (e.g. words in text)
  • categorical.

In particular, the video describes how one-hot encoding can be used to represent categorical data.

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