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How to use a one-hot encoded nominal feature in a classifier in Scikit Learn?



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Im working on a genre classification problem on a songs dataset. Since genre is a nominal feature, I used sklearn's LabelBinarizer to get the one-hot encoding for this feature for every row in the dataset. I'm then left with a dataframe(df_train_num) with two columns, both numeric in nature and a Series object for which every row value is a numpy array - the one-hot encoding of the genre.I now want to fit a classifier on this data. What I did was:



svm_classifier = LinearSVC()
svm_classifier.fit(df_train_num,df_train_genre)


This gives me a ValueError: Unknown label type: 'unknown'
What exactly is causing this error? Am I not allowed to use a Series object with a DataFrame object in the to fit a classifier?Although replacing df_train_genre with df_train_genre.values so as to pass the numpy array directly to the fit method also doesnt change anything. Same error



Here is a view of the two pandas objects:



df_train_num.head(5)


Unique_Word_Count Sentiment Polarity
157277 126 0.027766
90109 114 -0.199545
106224 16 0.000000
221087 103 -0.058025
247082 409 -0.170143

df_train_genre.head(5)

157277 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
90109 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
106224 [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
221087 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
247082 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
Name: Genre_Encoded, dtype: object









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    Im working on a genre classification problem on a songs dataset. Since genre is a nominal feature, I used sklearn's LabelBinarizer to get the one-hot encoding for this feature for every row in the dataset. I'm then left with a dataframe(df_train_num) with two columns, both numeric in nature and a Series object for which every row value is a numpy array - the one-hot encoding of the genre.I now want to fit a classifier on this data. What I did was:



    svm_classifier = LinearSVC()
    svm_classifier.fit(df_train_num,df_train_genre)


    This gives me a ValueError: Unknown label type: 'unknown'
    What exactly is causing this error? Am I not allowed to use a Series object with a DataFrame object in the to fit a classifier?Although replacing df_train_genre with df_train_genre.values so as to pass the numpy array directly to the fit method also doesnt change anything. Same error



    Here is a view of the two pandas objects:



    df_train_num.head(5)


    Unique_Word_Count Sentiment Polarity
    157277 126 0.027766
    90109 114 -0.199545
    106224 16 0.000000
    221087 103 -0.058025
    247082 409 -0.170143

    df_train_genre.head(5)

    157277 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
    90109 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
    106224 [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
    221087 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
    247082 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
    Name: Genre_Encoded, dtype: object









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      Im working on a genre classification problem on a songs dataset. Since genre is a nominal feature, I used sklearn's LabelBinarizer to get the one-hot encoding for this feature for every row in the dataset. I'm then left with a dataframe(df_train_num) with two columns, both numeric in nature and a Series object for which every row value is a numpy array - the one-hot encoding of the genre.I now want to fit a classifier on this data. What I did was:



      svm_classifier = LinearSVC()
      svm_classifier.fit(df_train_num,df_train_genre)


      This gives me a ValueError: Unknown label type: 'unknown'
      What exactly is causing this error? Am I not allowed to use a Series object with a DataFrame object in the to fit a classifier?Although replacing df_train_genre with df_train_genre.values so as to pass the numpy array directly to the fit method also doesnt change anything. Same error



      Here is a view of the two pandas objects:



      df_train_num.head(5)


      Unique_Word_Count Sentiment Polarity
      157277 126 0.027766
      90109 114 -0.199545
      106224 16 0.000000
      221087 103 -0.058025
      247082 409 -0.170143

      df_train_genre.head(5)

      157277 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
      90109 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
      106224 [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
      221087 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
      247082 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
      Name: Genre_Encoded, dtype: object









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      Im working on a genre classification problem on a songs dataset. Since genre is a nominal feature, I used sklearn's LabelBinarizer to get the one-hot encoding for this feature for every row in the dataset. I'm then left with a dataframe(df_train_num) with two columns, both numeric in nature and a Series object for which every row value is a numpy array - the one-hot encoding of the genre.I now want to fit a classifier on this data. What I did was:



      svm_classifier = LinearSVC()
      svm_classifier.fit(df_train_num,df_train_genre)


      This gives me a ValueError: Unknown label type: 'unknown'
      What exactly is causing this error? Am I not allowed to use a Series object with a DataFrame object in the to fit a classifier?Although replacing df_train_genre with df_train_genre.values so as to pass the numpy array directly to the fit method also doesnt change anything. Same error



      Here is a view of the two pandas objects:



      df_train_num.head(5)


      Unique_Word_Count Sentiment Polarity
      157277 126 0.027766
      90109 114 -0.199545
      106224 16 0.000000
      221087 103 -0.058025
      247082 409 -0.170143

      df_train_genre.head(5)

      157277 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
      90109 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
      106224 [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
      221087 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
      247082 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
      Name: Genre_Encoded, dtype: object






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          I think you should try pd.get_dummies to code the categories; which will create new columns in dataframe and then use that df to pass it to the classifier.






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