convert_categorical_to_numeric_naively.ipynb

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      "# Convert A String Categorical Variable To A Numeric Variable Naively\n",
      "\n",
      "This snippit was written by [Chris R. Albon](http://www.chrisralbon.com/) and is part of his collection of [well-documented Python snippits](/~https://github.com/chrisalbon/code_py). All code is written in Python 3 in iPython notebook and offered under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).\n",
      "\n",
      "Originally from: Data Origami."
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      "### import modules"
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      "import pandas as pd"
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      "### Create dataframe"
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      "raw_data = {'patient': [1, 1, 1, 2, 2], \n",
      "        'obs': [1, 2, 3, 1, 2], \n",
      "        'treatment': [0, 1, 0, 1, 0],\n",
      "        'score': ['strong', 'weak', 'normal', 'weak', 'strong']} \n",
      "df = pd.DataFrame(raw_data, columns = ['patient', 'obs', 'treatment', 'score'])\n",
      "df"
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        "<table border=\"1\" class=\"dataframe\">\n",
        "  <thead>\n",
        "    <tr style=\"text-align: right;\">\n",
        "      <th></th>\n",
        "      <th>patient</th>\n",
        "      <th>obs</th>\n",
        "      <th>treatment</th>\n",
        "      <th>score</th>\n",
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        "  </thead>\n",
        "  <tbody>\n",
        "    <tr>\n",
        "      <th>0</th>\n",
        "      <td> 1</td>\n",
        "      <td> 1</td>\n",
        "      <td> 0</td>\n",
        "      <td> strong</td>\n",
        "    </tr>\n",
        "    <tr>\n",
        "      <th>1</th>\n",
        "      <td> 1</td>\n",
        "      <td> 2</td>\n",
        "      <td> 1</td>\n",
        "      <td>   weak</td>\n",
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        "    <tr>\n",
        "      <th>2</th>\n",
        "      <td> 1</td>\n",
        "      <td> 3</td>\n",
        "      <td> 0</td>\n",
        "      <td> normal</td>\n",
        "    </tr>\n",
        "    <tr>\n",
        "      <th>3</th>\n",
        "      <td> 2</td>\n",
        "      <td> 1</td>\n",
        "      <td> 1</td>\n",
        "      <td>   weak</td>\n",
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        "    <tr>\n",
        "      <th>4</th>\n",
        "      <td> 2</td>\n",
        "      <td> 2</td>\n",
        "      <td> 0</td>\n",
        "      <td> strong</td>\n",
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        "   patient  obs  treatment   score\n",
        "0        1    1          0  strong\n",
        "1        1    2          1    weak\n",
        "2        1    3          0  normal\n",
        "3        2    1          1    weak\n",
        "4        2    2          0  strong"
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      "### Create a function that converts all values of df['score'] into numbers"
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      "def score_to_numeric(x):\n",
      "    if x=='strong':\n",
      "        return 3\n",
      "    if x=='normal':\n",
      "        return 2\n",
      "    if x=='weak':\n",
      "        return 1"
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      "### Apply the function to the score variable"
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      "df['score_num'] = df['score'].apply(score_to_numeric)\n",
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        "      <th>2</th>\n",
        "      <td> 1</td>\n",
        "      <td> 3</td>\n",
        "      <td> 0</td>\n",
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        "      <td> 2</td>\n",
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        "      <th>3</th>\n",
        "      <td> 2</td>\n",
        "      <td> 1</td>\n",
        "      <td> 1</td>\n",
        "      <td>   weak</td>\n",
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        "      <td> 2</td>\n",
        "      <td> 2</td>\n",
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        "0        1    1          0  strong          3\n",
        "1        1    2          1    weak          1\n",
        "2        1    3          0  normal          2\n",
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