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Dr. Pablo Rivas
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Dr. Pablo Rivas

Dr. Pablo Rivas is an assistant professor of computer science at Baylor University in Texas. He worked in industry for a decade as a software engineer before becoming an academic. He is a senior member of the IEEE, ACM, and SIAM. He was formerly at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center performing research. He is an ally of women in technology, a deep learning evangelist, machine learning ethicist, and a proponent of the democratization of machine learning and artificial intelligence in general. He teaches machine learning and deep learning. Dr. Rivas is a published author and all his papers are related to machine learning, computer vision, and machine learning ethics. Dr. Rivas prefers Vim to Emacs and spaces to tabs.
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Categorical data and multiple classes

Now that you know how to binarize data for different purposes, we can look into other types of data, such as categorical or multi-labeled data, and how to make them numeric. Most advanced deep learning algorithms, in fact, only accept numerical data. This is merely a design issue that can easily be solved later on, and it is not a big deal because you will learn there are easy ways to take categorical data and convert it to a meaningful numerical representation.

Categorical data has information embedded as distinct categories. These categories can be represented as numbers or as strings. For example, a dataset that has a column named country with items such as "India", "Mexico", "France", and "U.S". Or, a dataset with zip codes such as 12601, 85621, and 73315. The former is non-numeric categorical data, and the latter is numeric categorical data. Country names would need to be converted to a number to be usable...
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Dr. Pablo Rivas

Dr. Pablo Rivas is an assistant professor of computer science at Baylor University in Texas. He worked in industry for a decade as a software engineer before becoming an academic. He is a senior member of the IEEE, ACM, and SIAM. He was formerly at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center performing research. He is an ally of women in technology, a deep learning evangelist, machine learning ethicist, and a proponent of the democratization of machine learning and artificial intelligence in general. He teaches machine learning and deep learning. Dr. Rivas is a published author and all his papers are related to machine learning, computer vision, and machine learning ethics. Dr. Rivas prefers Vim to Emacs and spaces to tabs.
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