{"id":49457,"date":"2024-04-15T22:56:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/?p=49457"},"modified":"2024-04-15T22:56:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:56:01","slug":"in-many-classification-problems-the-target-dataset-is-made-up-of-categorical-labels-which-cannot-immediately-be-processed-by-any-algorithm-an-encoding-is-needed-and-scikit-learn-offers-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/in-many-classification-problems-the-target-dataset-is-made-up-of-categorical-labels-which-cannot-immediately-be-processed-by-any-algorithm-an-encoding-is-needed-and-scikit-learn-offers-at-least\/","title":{"rendered":"In many classification problems, the target dataset is made up of categorical labels which cannot immediately be processed by any algorithm. 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