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How do we change the data type from nominal to numerical in rapidminer?

Digaari_10Digaari_10 Member Posts: 2 Learner I
edited January 2021 in Help

I don't want unique integers substituting my values or use dummy coding (Basically what Nominal to Numerical Operator does)

I even tried using Real to Integer operator. But that did not change the datatype from Nominal to Numerical Inplace.

Is there any operator to just convert the values inplace?

Motive: Need to feed my data to Linear Regression. And Linear Regression Operator demands Numerical values

Answers

  • MartinLiebigMartinLiebig Administrator, Moderator, Employee-RapidMiner, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, RapidMiner Certified Expert, University Professor Posts: 3,533 RM Data Scientist
    Hi,
    if you don't want unique integers nor dummy coding, what do you want? Target encoding?

    Best,
    Martin
    - Sr. Director Data Solutions, Altair RapidMiner -
    Dortmund, Germany
  • Digaari_10Digaari_10 Member Posts: 2 Learner I
    edited January 2021
    I Just want to convert them inplace.
    Its type says Nominal. (Can refer the screenshot)
    I want to convert it to numerical type

    As simple as

    5.00 --> 5
  • MartinLiebigMartinLiebig Administrator, Moderator, Employee-RapidMiner, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, RapidMiner Certified Expert, University Professor Posts: 3,533 RM Data Scientist
    Hi,
    Ahh, i think you want to use the Parse Numbers operator.

    Cheers,
    Martin
    - Sr. Director Data Solutions, Altair RapidMiner -
    Dortmund, Germany
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