# Numerical

Numerical columns contain numbers. The defining aspect of numerical data is that **the numbers have an order and you can apply a variety of mathematical computations** to them (average, sum, etc.) The actual values may follow a specific format, such as being rounded to 2 decimal digits and remaining between min/max bounds.

![For example, you might be storing product purchase amounts (USD) with 2 decimal digits. You might be storing the ages of your customers as whole numbers that must be 18 or above. ](/files/UgonObKQyXrtziQENtf8)

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If the data is stored as integers, it does not mean it's necessarily numerical. For example, HTTP response codes such as `200`, `404`, etc. are stored as integers but they are distinct categories. They cannot be combined or averaged.
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## General Numerical Transformers

These transformers can format, analyze, and reshape your numerical data into simpler shapes for data science.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="/pages/W8nSvA762LS5VHXn03qe"><strong>FloatFormatter</strong></a></td><td>A general transformer that imputes missing values.</td><td><a href="/pages/W8nSvA762LS5VHXn03qe">/pages/W8nSvA762LS5VHXn03qe</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/pages/nX76ILhnyvzJ390MWRtC"><strong>ClusterBasedNormalizer</strong></a></td><td>Use Gaussian Mixture Models to cluster and normalize the data.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/pages/YTEhWvnwVOq2p6i54EUM"><strong>GaussianNormalizer</strong></a></td><td>Use a probability integral transform to normalize the data. Choose from several distributions.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>＊<a href="/pages/vuaSxPQDhoNXCkrKoHJc"><strong>OutlierEncoder</strong></a></td><td>Detect and encode outliers for more accurate data science.</td><td><a href="/pages/vuaSxPQDhoNXCkrKoHJc">/pages/vuaSxPQDhoNXCkrKoHJc</a></td></tr><tr><td>❖  <a href="/pages/OWOg4WmAYhUGPbjxRa9p"><strong>XGaussianNormalizer</strong></a></td><td>Use a probability integral transform to normalize data. Choose from 100s of distributions.</td><td><a href="/pages/OWOg4WmAYhUGPbjxRa9p">/pages/OWOg4WmAYhUGPbjxRa9p</a></td></tr><tr><td>❖ <a href="/pages/c44NbxQLfiOiLGfMPmSY"><strong>ECDFNormalizer</strong></a></td><td>Normalize the data directly instead of using a predefined shape.</td><td><a href="/pages/c44NbxQLfiOiLGfMPmSY">/pages/c44NbxQLfiOiLGfMPmSY</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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## Differential Privacy Transformers

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

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>❖ <a href="/pages/kZCL9D6UvuEuXj7lwd1i"><strong>DPECDFNormalizer</strong></a></td><td>Normalize the data by computing CDF function and adding noise.</td><td><a href="/pages/kZCL9D6UvuEuXj7lwd1i">/pages/kZCL9D6UvuEuXj7lwd1i</a></td></tr><tr><td>❖ <a href="/pages/NwzeCuQgMUSrSt8wtwSr"><strong>DPLaplaceNoiser</strong></a></td><td>Privatize the data by adding Laplacian noise</td><td><a href="/pages/NwzeCuQgMUSrSt8wtwSr">/pages/NwzeCuQgMUSrSt8wtwSr</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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