Categorical

Categorical columns contain distinct categories. The defining aspect of a categorical column is that there is a set number of predefined categories.

The categories may be ordered or unordered. Ordered categories are known as ordinal while unordered categories are known as nominal.

For example, you may be recording the credit card company of your users. This can only take on specific values like "VISA", "AMEX" or "DISCOVER". This is nominal because the categories don't have any order.

General Categorical Transformers

These transformers encode your categorical values as numerical values, ready for data science and machine learning.

Differential Privacy Transformers

These transformers use differential privacy techniques to add noise or reshape your column of categorical data. As a result, your column — and any statistics about it — can be shared with differential privacy guarantees.

SDV Enterprise Bundle. This feature is available as part of the Differential Privacy Bundle, an optional add-on to SDV Enterprise. For more information, please visit the Differential Privacy Bundle page. Coming soon!

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