Python Natural Language Processing

Understanding a practical example for one-hot encoding

In this section, we will use scikit-learn to generate one-hot encoding for a small dataset. You can find the code at this GitHub link:

https://github.com/jalajthanaki/NLPython/tree/master/ch5/onehotencodingdemo.

You can see the code snippet in Figure 5.63:

Figure 5.63: Pandas and scikit-learn to generate one-hot encoding

You can see the output in Figure 5.64:

Figure 5.64: Output of one-hot encoding