OneHotEncoder is a class in the sklearn.preprocessing module of Python's scikit-learn library. It is used for converting categorical variables into numerical representations suitable for machine learning algorithms.
When working with categorical data, OneHotEncoder encodes each category as a binary feature, representing it as a one-hot vector. This means that for each unique category, a new binary attribute is created, and for each data entry, only one of these attributes is set to 1 while the others are set to 0.
The OneHotEncoder class provides methods to fit the encoder to the data and transform the categorical features into their one-hot encoded representations. It can also handle missing values and apply the encoding to new data using the fitted encoder.
OneHotEncoder is commonly used in machine learning pipelines to preprocess categorical variables and prepare them for training predictive models.
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