cane 0.0.1.4

Cane - Categorical Attribute traNsformation Environment

Cane - Categorical Attribute traNsformation Environment

CANE is a simpler but powerful preprocessing method for machine learning.

At the moment offers 3 preprocessing methods:

--> The Percentage Categorical Pruned (PCP) merges all least frequent levels (summing up to "perc" percent) into a single level as presented in (https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2019.8851888), which, for example, can be "Others" category. It can be useful when dealing with several amounts of categorical information (e.g., city data).

--> The Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) codifies the categorical levels into frequency values, where the closer to 0 means, the more frequent it is (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8710472).

--> Finally it also has implemented a simpler standard One-Hot-Encoding method.

Instalation

To install this package please run the following command

pip install cane 

It is still in test version, so any feedback would be appreciated

For questions and other suggestions contact [e-mail]

Example

import pandas as pd
import cane
x = [k for s in ([k] * n for k, n in [('a', 30000), ('b', 50000), ('c', 70000), ('d', 10000), ('e', 1000)]) for k in s]
df = pd.DataFrame({f'x{i}' : x for i in range(1, 13)})

dataPCP, dicionary = cane.pcp(df)  # uses the PCP method and only 1 core
dataPCP, dicionary = cane.pcp(df, n_coresJob=2)  # uses the PCP method and only 2 cores
dataIDF = cane.idf(df)  # uses the IDF method and only 1 core
dataIDF = cane.idf(df, n_coresJob=2)  # uses the IDF method and only 2 core

dataH = cane.one_hot(df)  # without a column prefixer
dataH2 = cane.one_hot(df, column_prefix='column')  # it will use the original column name prefix
# (useful for when dealing with id number columns)
dataH3 = cane.one_hot(df, column_prefix='customColName')  # it will use a custom prefix defined by
# the value of the column_prefix
dataH4 = cane.one_hot(df, column_prefix='column', n_coresJob=2)  # it will use the original column name prefix
# (useful for when dealing with id number columns)
# with 2 cores