On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Maheshakya Wijewardena < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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. >> > What are we trying achieve by introducing these new types? Do we introduce anything new to our workflow depending on these new types? > >> 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 > > > -- *CD Athuraliya* Software Engineer WSO2, Inc. lean . enterprise . middleware Mobile: +94 716288847 <94716288847> LinkedIn <http://lk.linkedin.com/in/cdathuraliya> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/cdathuraliya> | Blog <https://cdathuraliya.wordpress.com/>
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