I have a question regarding categorical variables. In the documentation you create dummy variables for the categorical variable, is this necessary? If I have 200 categories in my categorical variable, I would prefer not to create dummy variables. Can I numerically encode it instead? In R I would do

as.numeric(as.factor(categorical_variable))

, does this make sense?

Hi @Vidar Ingason, yes, you can also numerically encode them. I used dummy variables to match the Python docs, but in that example we're only using weekdays.

Thanks @Mariana Menchero 🙂