featuretools.variable_types.variable.Categorical

class featuretools.variable_types.variable.Categorical(id, entity, name=None, categories=None)[source]

Represents variables that can take an unordered discrete values

Parameters

categories (list) – List of categories. If left blank, inferred from data.

__init__(id, entity, name=None, categories=None)[source]

Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.

Methods

__init__(id, entity[, name, categories])

Initialize self.

create_from(variable)

Create new variable this type from existing

to_data_description()

Attributes

dtype

entityset

interesting_values

name

series

type_string