一个在numpy中使用矢量化并在pandas中应用的简单示例:

import numpy as np

a = np.array(['male','female','female','male'])

#define function
onehot_function = lambda x: 1.0 if (x=='male') else 0.0

onehot_a = np.vectorize(onehot_function)(a)

print(onehot_a)
# [1., 0., 0., 1.]

# -----------------------------------------

import pandas as pd

s = pd.Series(['male','female','female','male'])
onehot_s = s.apply(onehot_function)

print(onehot_s)
# 0    1.0
# 1    0.0
# 2    0.0
# 3    1.0
# dtype: float64

你也可以做以下事情。注意，对于下面的内容，您不必使用pd.concat。

import pandas as pd 
# intialise data of lists. 
data = {'Color':['Red', 'Yellow', 'Red', 'Yellow'], 'Length':[20.1, 21.1, 19.1, 18.1],
       'Group':[1,2,1,2]} 

# Create DataFrame 
df = pd.DataFrame(data) 

for _c in df.select_dtypes(include=['object']).columns:
    print(_c)
    df[_c]  = pd.Categorical(df[_c])
df_transformed = pd.get_dummies(df)
df_transformed

还可以将显式列更改为分类列。例如，这里我正在更改颜色和组

import pandas as pd 
# intialise data of lists. 
data = {'Color':['Red', 'Yellow', 'Red', 'Yellow'], 'Length':[20.1, 21.1, 19.1, 18.1],
       'Group':[1,2,1,2]} 

# Create DataFrame 
df = pd.DataFrame(data) 
columns_to_change = list(df.select_dtypes(include=['object']).columns)
columns_to_change.append('Group')
for _c in columns_to_change:
    print(_c)
    df[_c]  = pd.Categorical(df[_c])
df_transformed = pd.get_dummies(df)
df_transformed

在这里我尝试了这个方法:

import numpy as np
#converting to one_hot





def one_hot_encoder(value, datal):

    datal[value] = 1

    return datal


def _one_hot_values(labels_data):
    encoded = [0] * len(labels_data)

    for j, i in enumerate(labels_data):
        max_value = [0] * (np.max(labels_data) + 1)

        encoded[j] = one_hot_encoder(i, max_value)

    return np.array(encoded)

您可以将数据传递给catboost分类器而不进行编码。Catboost通过执行单热和目标扩展平均编码来处理分类变量本身。

下面是使用DictVectorizer和Pandas datafframe .to_dict('records')方法的解决方案。

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> X = pd.DataFrame({'income': [100000,110000,90000,30000,14000,50000],
                      'country':['US', 'CAN', 'US', 'CAN', 'MEX', 'US'],
                      'race':['White', 'Black', 'Latino', 'White', 'White', 'Black']
                     })

>>> from sklearn.feature_extraction import DictVectorizer
>>> v = DictVectorizer()
>>> qualitative_features = ['country','race']
>>> X_qual = v.fit_transform(X[qualitative_features].to_dict('records'))
>>> v.vocabulary_
{'country=CAN': 0,
 'country=MEX': 1,
 'country=US': 2,
 'race=Black': 3,
 'race=Latino': 4,
 'race=White': 5}

>>> X_qual.toarray()
array([[ 0.,  0.,  1.,  0.,  0.,  1.],
       [ 1.,  0.,  0.,  1.,  0.,  0.],
       [ 0.,  0.,  1.,  0.,  1.,  0.],
       [ 1.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  1.],
       [ 0.,  1.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  1.],
       [ 0.,  0.,  1.,  1.,  0.,  0.]])

试试这个:

!pip install category_encoders
import category_encoders as ce

categorical_columns = [...the list of names of the columns you want to one-hot-encode ...]
encoder = ce.OneHotEncoder(cols=categorical_columns, use_cat_names=True)
df_train_encoded = encoder.fit_transform(df_train_small)

df_encoded.head ()

生成的数据框架df_train_encoded与原始数据框架相同，但是分类特征现在被它们的单热编码版本所取代。

更多关于category_encoders的信息请点击这里。