Label Encoding
Medium
feature-engineering
PayPal
Salesforce
Convert categorical string values to integer labels. Assign integers based on sorted order of unique values.
Example
label_encode(["cat", "dog", "cat", "bird"])
# => [1, 2, 1, 0] (bird=0, cat=1, dog=2)
Test Cases
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