The Data Science Lab Data Prep for Machine Learning: Encoding Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full code program and screenshots to explain how to programmatically encode categorical ...

What are the numbers? You can encode 9,999,999,999 in 5 bytes. If you want to store the number in human readable bytes, convert it to Base64 encoding or similar.

If you have young kids, you'll relate to the value of being able to speak in code. For a few years, I was able to use Pig Latin to speak covertly around my kids. It was handy, and surprisingly ...