Onehotify

A Python script for converting categorical data into one-hot encoding

Features

• Uses only standard Python libraries
• Takes input as either set or list format
• Uses only standard Python libraries
• Comes with a main contaning an illustrative example
• All functions have docstrings
• Simple design and usage.

Installation

Requires Python 2.7 Simply add the file to the same directory you are working in and import it

>>> import onehotify

Usage

Premade Example

Running the script by itself in the terminal will output the following example

$ python onehotify.py
The categories are: set(['orange', 'apple', 'banana'])

The encoding is
	0 maps to orange
	1 maps to apple
	2 maps to banana

The set ['apple', 'orange'] is encoded as
[1, 1, 0]
From which the original can be recovered by decoding
set(['orange', 'apple'])