Re: [Scikit-learn-general] [Matplotlib-users] Scipy2016: call for proposals

2016-03-19 Thread Andreas Mueller
Yeah he does everything from scratch. So yeah they are all a bit different. Sent from phone. Please excuse spelling and brevity. On Mar 14, 2016 00:02, "Sebastian Raschka" wrote: > PS: I haven’t heard about Marsland’s book, but I just looked at the TOC on > Amazon. There are only a few code exam

[Scikit-learn-general] Pipeline: string categorical data preprocessing

2016-03-19 Thread Алексей Драль
Hi there, I have a data set which contains string categorical variables (like "category_A", "category_B"). I would like to generate dummy variables from them, but I can't use OneHotEncoder as it expects matrix of integers. I cannot use LabelEncoder neither, because I cannot provide columns to pro

[Scikit-learn-general] [Nelson Liu] GSoC 2016 Proposal: Addition of various enhancements to the tree module by completing stalled pull requests

2016-03-19 Thread Nelson Liu
Hi Everyone, My name is Nelson Liu, and I’m a current undergrad at the University of Washington. I’ve been contributing to scikit-learn since November 2015, and I thought that the Google Summer of Code program would be a great way to increase my involvement in the project. I’ve since written a prop