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Label encoder vs One Hot Encoder

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  One-Hot Encoding vs. Label Encoding using Scikit-Learn when to use label encoder? If your column has two variables for example yes and no at this situation this method works perfectly well  code: here dataset is our excel or csv file  What is label encoder how it differ from one-hot encoder? Image result for draw back of label encoder here purchased column can be encoded by label encode .but problem arises in country column where it has more that two unique variables What one hot encoding does is, it takes a column which has categorical data, which has been label encoded, and then splits the column into multiple columns. The numbers are replaced by 1s and 0s, depending on which column has what value. ... So, that's the difference between Label Encoding and One Hot Encoding. code: