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There are two main types of categorical variables: nominal and ordinal. 1. Nominal Variables Definition:Nominal variables are categorical variables that have two or more categories, but there is no intrinsic ordering to these categories. The categori...

When working with machine learning models, one of the crucial steps in data preprocessing is encoding categorical variables. Categorical data, which represents categories or groups, needs to be converted into a numerical format that algorithms can pr...
