# Generating dummy variables from a vector of strings (one-hot encoding)

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**Created:** [July 29, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/generating-dummy-variables-from-a-vector-of-strings-one-hot-encoding/65507 "2021-07-29T16:50:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![pdeffebach](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pdeffebach/32/10320_2.png) [@pdeffebach](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pdeffebach)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 10:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/generating-dummy-variables-from-a-vector-of-strings-one-hot-encoding/65507/8 "2021-07-30T22:35:01Z")

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[Here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/all-the-ways-to-do-one-hot-encoding/64807) is a pretty complete list for how to do one-hot encoding.

It looks like the easiest might be `StatsBase.indicatormat`

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