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How to handle columns with categorical data and many unique values



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I have a column with categorical data with nunique 3349 values, in a 18000k row dataset, which represent cities of the world.



I also have another column with 145 nunique values that I could also use in my model that represents product category.



Can I use one hot encoding to these columns or there's a problem with that solution?
Like which is the max number of unique values to use one hot encoding so there's not gonna be any problem ?



Can you point me to the right direction if I should use another encoding also?










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    I have a column with categorical data with nunique 3349 values, in a 18000k row dataset, which represent cities of the world.



    I also have another column with 145 nunique values that I could also use in my model that represents product category.



    Can I use one hot encoding to these columns or there's a problem with that solution?
    Like which is the max number of unique values to use one hot encoding so there's not gonna be any problem ?



    Can you point me to the right direction if I should use another encoding also?










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      I have a column with categorical data with nunique 3349 values, in a 18000k row dataset, which represent cities of the world.



      I also have another column with 145 nunique values that I could also use in my model that represents product category.



      Can I use one hot encoding to these columns or there's a problem with that solution?
      Like which is the max number of unique values to use one hot encoding so there's not gonna be any problem ?



      Can you point me to the right direction if I should use another encoding also?










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      I have a column with categorical data with nunique 3349 values, in a 18000k row dataset, which represent cities of the world.



      I also have another column with 145 nunique values that I could also use in my model that represents product category.



      Can I use one hot encoding to these columns or there's a problem with that solution?
      Like which is the max number of unique values to use one hot encoding so there's not gonna be any problem ?



      Can you point me to the right direction if I should use another encoding also?







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          For categorical columns, you have two options :




          1. Entity Embeddings

          2. One Hot Vector


          For a column with 145 values, I would use one hot encoding and Embedding for ~3k values. This decision might change depending on overall number of features.



          Embeddings map feature values into a 1D vector so that model knows NYC, Paris, London are similar cities in one aspect (size) and very different in other aspects. So, instead of using ~3k column of features, model will have ~50 columns of vector representation.



          Articles that explain Embeddings :




          • An Overview of Categorical Input Handling for Neural Networks


          • On learning embeddings for categorical data using Keras


          • Google Developers > Machine Learning > Embeddings: Categorical Input Data


          • Exploring Embeddings for Categorical Variables with Keras by Florian Teschner







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            For categorical columns, you have two options :




            1. Entity Embeddings

            2. One Hot Vector


            For a column with 145 values, I would use one hot encoding and Embedding for ~3k values. This decision might change depending on overall number of features.



            Embeddings map feature values into a 1D vector so that model knows NYC, Paris, London are similar cities in one aspect (size) and very different in other aspects. So, instead of using ~3k column of features, model will have ~50 columns of vector representation.



            Articles that explain Embeddings :




            • An Overview of Categorical Input Handling for Neural Networks


            • On learning embeddings for categorical data using Keras


            • Google Developers > Machine Learning > Embeddings: Categorical Input Data


            • Exploring Embeddings for Categorical Variables with Keras by Florian Teschner







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              $begingroup$

              For categorical columns, you have two options :




              1. Entity Embeddings

              2. One Hot Vector


              For a column with 145 values, I would use one hot encoding and Embedding for ~3k values. This decision might change depending on overall number of features.



              Embeddings map feature values into a 1D vector so that model knows NYC, Paris, London are similar cities in one aspect (size) and very different in other aspects. So, instead of using ~3k column of features, model will have ~50 columns of vector representation.



              Articles that explain Embeddings :




              • An Overview of Categorical Input Handling for Neural Networks


              • On learning embeddings for categorical data using Keras


              • Google Developers > Machine Learning > Embeddings: Categorical Input Data


              • Exploring Embeddings for Categorical Variables with Keras by Florian Teschner







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                For categorical columns, you have two options :




                1. Entity Embeddings

                2. One Hot Vector


                For a column with 145 values, I would use one hot encoding and Embedding for ~3k values. This decision might change depending on overall number of features.



                Embeddings map feature values into a 1D vector so that model knows NYC, Paris, London are similar cities in one aspect (size) and very different in other aspects. So, instead of using ~3k column of features, model will have ~50 columns of vector representation.



                Articles that explain Embeddings :




                • An Overview of Categorical Input Handling for Neural Networks


                • On learning embeddings for categorical data using Keras


                • Google Developers > Machine Learning > Embeddings: Categorical Input Data


                • Exploring Embeddings for Categorical Variables with Keras by Florian Teschner







                share|improve this answer











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                For categorical columns, you have two options :




                1. Entity Embeddings

                2. One Hot Vector


                For a column with 145 values, I would use one hot encoding and Embedding for ~3k values. This decision might change depending on overall number of features.



                Embeddings map feature values into a 1D vector so that model knows NYC, Paris, London are similar cities in one aspect (size) and very different in other aspects. So, instead of using ~3k column of features, model will have ~50 columns of vector representation.



                Articles that explain Embeddings :




                • An Overview of Categorical Input Handling for Neural Networks


                • On learning embeddings for categorical data using Keras


                • Google Developers > Machine Learning > Embeddings: Categorical Input Data


                • Exploring Embeddings for Categorical Variables with Keras by Florian Teschner








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