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What does one-hot encoding do to a categorical variable?

A Creates a binary indicator column for each category
B Assigns each category an integer rank
C Removes the column
D Scales the categories to a range

Answer

Creates a binary indicator column for each category

It is unsuitable for very high cardinality, where it creates thousands of sparse columns. Target encoding is the usual alternative.

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