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LabelEncoder (
min_frequency : typing . Optional [ int ] = None ,
max_categories : typing . Optional [ int ] = None ,
)
Encode target labels with value between 0 and n_classes-1.
This transformer should be used to encode target values, i.e. y
, and
not the input X
.
Parameters
Name
Description
min_frequency
Optional[int], default None
Specifies the minimum frequency below which a category will be considered infrequent. Default None. int: categories with a smaller cardinality will be considered infrequent as ßindex 0.
max_categories
Optional[int], default None
Specifies an upper limit to the number of output features for each input feature when considering infrequent categories. If there are infrequent categories, max_categories includes the category representing the infrequent categories along with the frequent categories. Default None. Set limit to 1,000,000.
Methods
__repr__
Print the estimator's constructor with all non-default parameter values.
fit
fit (
y : typing . Union [
bigframes . dataframe . DataFrame ,
bigframes . series . Series ,
pandas . core . frame . DataFrame ,
pandas . core . series . Series ,
],
) - > bigframes . ml . preprocessing . LabelEncoder
Returns
Type
Description
LabelEncoder
Fitted encoder.
fit_transform (
y : typing . Union [
bigframes . dataframe . DataFrame ,
bigframes . series . Series ,
pandas . core . frame . DataFrame ,
pandas . core . series . Series ,
],
) - > bigframes . dataframe . DataFrame
API documentation for fit_transform
method.
get_params
get_params ( deep : bool = True ) - > typing . Dict [ str , typing . Any ]
Get parameters for this estimator.
Parameter
Name
Description
deep
bool, default True
Default True
. If True, will return the parameters for this estimator and contained subobjects that are estimators.
Returns
Type
Description
Dictionary
A dictionary of parameter names mapped to their values.
to_gbq
to_gbq ( model_name : str , replace : bool = False ) - > bigframes . ml . base . _T
Save the transformer as a BigQuery model.
Parameters
Name
Description
model_name
str
The name of the model.
replace
bool, default False
Determine whether to replace if the model already exists. Default to False.
transform (
y : typing . Union [
bigframes . dataframe . DataFrame ,
bigframes . series . Series ,
pandas . core . frame . DataFrame ,
pandas . core . series . Series ,
],
) - > bigframes . dataframe . DataFrame
Transform y using label encoding.
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[0.2.0](/python/docs/reference/bigframes/0.2.0/bigframes.ml.preprocessing.LabelEncoder) \n\n LabelEncoder(\n min_frequency: typing.Optional[int] = None,\n max_categories: typing.Optional[int] = None,\n )\n\nEncode target labels with value between 0 and n_classes-1.\n\nThis transformer should be used to encode target values, *i.e.* `y`, and\nnot the input `X`.\n\nMethods\n-------\n\n### __repr__\n\n __repr__()\n\nPrint the estimator's constructor with all non-default parameter values.\n\n### fit\n\n fit(\n y: typing.Union[\n bigframes.dataframe.DataFrame,\n bigframes.series.Series,\n pandas.core.frame.DataFrame,\n pandas.core.series.Series,\n ],\n ) -\u003e bigframes.ml.preprocessing.LabelEncoder\n\nFit label encoder.\n\n### fit_transform\n\n fit_transform(\n y: typing.Union[\n bigframes.dataframe.DataFrame,\n bigframes.series.Series,\n pandas.core.frame.DataFrame,\n pandas.core.series.Series,\n ],\n ) -\u003e bigframes.dataframe.DataFrame\n\nAPI documentation for `fit_transform` method.\n\n### get_params\n\n get_params(deep: bool = True) -\u003e typing.Dict[str, typing.Any]\n\nGet parameters for this estimator.\n\n### to_gbq\n\n to_gbq(model_name: str, replace: bool = False) -\u003e bigframes.ml.base._T\n\nSave the transformer as a BigQuery model.\n\n### transform\n\n transform(\n y: typing.Union[\n bigframes.dataframe.DataFrame,\n bigframes.series.Series,\n pandas.core.frame.DataFrame,\n pandas.core.series.Series,\n ],\n ) -\u003e bigframes.dataframe.DataFrame\n\nTransform y using label encoding."]]