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Solving “Found unknown categories […] in column” with sklearn OneHotEncoder

In this short blog post, I tackle an error related to a classic problem within machine learning: how to treat unseen categorical values and solve the “found unknown categories” error. Imagine you have a train and a test data set with the following values in a column: Train: [‘green’, ‘red’,… 

Solving “trend lines are not supported when marks are stacked” in Tableau

When you have a scatter plot in Tableau, you often want to add a trend line to indicate a relationship between two variables. However, sometimes it appears that it’s impossible: it’s greyed out and there is a tooltip that says “trend lines are not supported when marks are stacked”. Let’s… 

Using scikit’s OneHotEncoder only on categorical variables of a data frame

I’ve been trying to build a model using machine learning today and I bumped into an error when I wanted to dummify my categorical predictors. It seemed I didn’t really know how Scikit’s OneHotEncoder worked. But I do now. And I want to share it with you. I had a… 

Prevent column type list when using read_sheet from R’s googlesheets4

Google Spreadsheets and R: a dynamic duo! An annoying feature in googlesheets4’s read_sheet(), is that within a column, it assigns a type to each cell individually when it is confused. However, this makes perfect sense. Sometimes, a column contains a mix of values that could be integers and values that…