On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 09:18:38PM +0100, Bronco Zaurus wrote:
> I have a beginner's question: how do you classify using non-numerical
> features, concretely strings (for example: 'audi', 'bmw',
> 'chevrolet')?
You are in trouble as your input space is not metric: what's .5*('audi' +
'chevrolet')? Standard continuous mathematical formulations do not apply.
I do believe that they are algorithms to deal with this kind of problems,
but the scikit does not implement any, and this is quite far from my area
of expertise. My approach would be to look for other kind of features.
Sorry for the bad news.
Gaël
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