How to convert categorical variable into dummy variable

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to create one Machine Learning model . But my dataset contains one string column that contains categorical values. I want to convert these string values into dummy variable. How can I do that? 

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can do this task using pandas module. Pandas has a function named get_dummies. It will convert your categorical string values into dummy variables. You can use this module as given bellow.

import pandas as pd
pd.get_dummies(name of categorical column)

Hope this will help.