No Label Left Behind: Alternative Encodings for Hierarchical Categoricals | by Valerie Carey | May, 2024

Seeking a system that works for current and future codes

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In my work as a data scientist, I see a lot of labels. Data contains zip code labels, gender labels, medical diagnosis labels, job title labels, stock ticker labels, you name it. Labels may be simple (shirt sizes of S,M, L) or complex (The…