How to do with both numeric variables and categorical variables?
sychen1218 opened this issue · 1 comments
sychen1218 commented
Hello, my input data has both numeric variables and categorical variables? and one of categorical variables has many values, for example 'id', there are more than 1000 values, how to input them to TCN?
Looking forward to your reply, Thanks very much!
philipperemy commented
The easiest way is to use one-hot encoding for your categorical variables and concatenate them with the numeric values and feed that as a big tensor to the TCN. But ideally, you would like to condition on those categorical variables.
You can check this repo it might get you some ideas: https://github.com/philipperemy/cond_rnn.
Re-open this issue if you have more questions!