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What is the total number of categories to decide if we want to go to One-hot encoding?

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365 Team 1 year ago
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Hi Ptolemy
 
There is no rule to do that. It also depends on your dataset.
 
To me, in order to use binary encoding, I’d need 100+ categories.
 
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