Hello everyone, New Julia user here. Suppose I have a vector of strings, and I’d like to generate a dummy variable for each unique value that appears in that string. For instance: data = ["a", "b", "a", "a", "b"] I want to create a matrix of dummy variables along the following lines: mat_col1…

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

danielw2904 July 30, 2021, 11:12pm 9

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