Note that only continuous is not sufficient since there can be numerical attributes that are not continuous like number of wins, etc.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Maheshakya Wijewardena < [email protected]> wrote: > Since the concern is about the suitability of the term "numerical", what > if we add two new feature types: > > 1. Continues numerical > 2. Discrete numerical > > to represent the features that actually have some numerical meaning and > then eliminate "numerical". That way we can get rid of the confusion when > there is categorical features with numerical values. > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Maheshakya Wijewardena < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Should there be an issue, since we are already considering these type of >> "numerical" features as categorical? >> >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Nirmal Fernando <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Supun Sethunga <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> IMO, 0 & 1 is still categorical. Its an equivalent to a encoded string >>>> variable, isn't it? >>>> >>> >>> Question is about what we should name current 'numerical' type. 0, 1 is >>> of course categorical :) >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Nirmal Fernando <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> All, >>>>> >>>>> Currently we have; numerical and categorical. But there can be >>>>> categorical features with numerical values for an example if a feature has >>>>> only 0 & 1 we say it's a categorical feature. What should be the >>>>> appropriate names? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Thanks & regards, >>>>> Nirmal >>>>> >>>>> Team Lead - WSO2 Machine Learner >>>>> Associate Technical Lead - Data Technologies Team, WSO2 Inc. >>>>> Mobile: +94715779733 >>>>> Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> *Supun Sethunga* >>>> Software Engineer >>>> WSO2, Inc. >>>> http://wso2.com/ >>>> lean | enterprise | middleware >>>> Mobile : +94 716546324 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Thanks & regards, >>> Nirmal >>> >>> Team Lead - WSO2 Machine Learner >>> Associate Technical Lead - Data Technologies Team, WSO2 Inc. >>> Mobile: +94715779733 >>> Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Pruthuvi Maheshakya Wijewardena >> [email protected] >> +94711228855 >> >> >> > > > -- > Pruthuvi Maheshakya Wijewardena > [email protected] > +94711228855 > > > -- Pruthuvi Maheshakya Wijewardena [email protected] +94711228855
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