Hi, a quick question. When should I use a OneHotEncoder? Cant I just keep using StringIndexer? | by Navaneeth Sen | Medium

Feature Encoding Made Simple With Spark 2.3.0 — Part 1

Roshini Johri

1 min readDec 20, 2019

Hi, a quick question. When should I use a OneHotEncoder? Cant I just keep using StringIndexer?

Sign up to discover human stories that deepen your understanding of the world.

Free

Distraction-free reading. No ads.

Organize your knowledge with lists and highlights.

Tell your story. Find your audience.

Membership

Read member-only stories

Support writers you read most

Earn money for your writing

Listen to audio narrations

Read offline with the Medium app

Written by Navaneeth Sen

Software Engineer | Java, Python, Linux, Unix | AI, DVB | 💻 | Azure | PyTorch | Hackathons | Innovations | Highly Inquisitive and Curious

No responses yet

Write a response

What are your thoughts?

Also publish to my profile

More from Navaneeth Sen

Remote Monitoring with JMX and jConsole: A Step-by-Step Guide

Navaneeth Sen

Remote Monitoring with JMX and jConsole: A Step-by-Step Guide

Java Management Extensions (JMX) provides a way to monitor and manage applications running on the Java platform. This guide will walk you…

Nov 20, 2024

How to fix long running Indexing in IntelliJ IDE

Navaneeth Sen

How to fix long running Indexing in IntelliJ IDE

The main purpose of indexing is to help the IDE provide code navigation and code completion more efficiently and thereby make things…

Jan 10, 2023

The Ultimate Guide to Connecting to On-Premise API’s using Azure Logic Apps

Navaneeth Sen

The Ultimate Guide to Connecting to On-Premise API’s using Azure Logic Apps

I recently had to finish a project in which the final task was to setup an Azure Logic Apps Workflow which can get and push information…

Feb 15, 2022

The Ultimate Guide to Installing NVIDIA Drivers, CUDA Toolkit, cuDNN and NVIDIA-Docker on Ubuntu 20.

Navaneeth Sen

The Ultimate Guide to Installing NVIDIA Drivers, CUDA Toolkit, cuDNN and NVIDIA-Docker on Ubuntu 20.

So one fine morning, I had this discussion with some of my colleagues and they all shared the same pain — Installing the Prerequisites for…

Feb 17, 2022

See all from Navaneeth Sen

Recommended from Medium

Jeff Bezos Says the 1-Hour Rule Makes Him Smarter. New Neuroscience Says He’s Right

Jessica Stillman

Jeff Bezos Says the 1-Hour Rule Makes Him Smarter. New Neuroscience Says He’s Right

Jeff Bezos’s morning routine has long included the one-hour rule. New neuroscience says yours probably should too.

Oct 30, 2024

The 5 paid subscriptions I actually use in 2025 as a Staff Software Engineer

In

Level Up Coding

by

Jacob Bennett

The 5 paid subscriptions I actually use in 2025 as a Staff Software Engineer

Tools I use that are cheaper than Netflix

Jan 7

Lists

Staff picks

827 stories1648 saves

Stories to Help You Level-Up at Work

19 stories948 saves

Self-Improvement 101

20 stories3355 saves

Productivity 101

20 stories2819 saves

How I Am Using a Lifetime 100% Free Server

Harendra

How I Am Using a Lifetime 100% Free Server

Get a server with 24 GB RAM + 4 CPU + 200 GB Storage + Always Free

Oct 26, 2024

This Is How Tesla Will Die

In

Predict

by

Will Lockett

This Is How Tesla Will Die

The vultures are circling the tech giant.

5d ago

I Pretended to Be a Man on a Dating Site — And I Hate What I Discovered

Ginger

I Pretended to Be a Man on a Dating Site — And I Hate What I Discovered

As a 23-year-old woman fascinated by human behavior (and, let’s be honest, sometimes just bored and curious), I decided to conduct a…

Mar 2

I Wrote On LinkedIn for 100 Days. Now I Never Worry About Finding a Job.

Alexander Nguyen

I Wrote On LinkedIn for 100 Days. Now I Never Worry About Finding a Job.

Everyone is hiring.

Sep 21, 2024

See more recommendations

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams