Numpy (40)

How to convert a numeric to a categorical (text) array?

# Input
url = 'https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/iris/iris.data'
iris = np.genfromtxt(url, delimiter=',', dtype='object')
names = ('sepallength', 'sepalwidth', 'petallength', 'petalwidth', 'species')

# Bin petallength 
petal_length_bin = np.digitize(iris[:, 2].astype('float'), [0, 3, 5, 10])

# Map it to respective category
label_map = {1: 'small', 2: 'medium', 3: 'large', 4: np.nan}
petal_length_cat = [label_map[x] for x in petal_length_bin]

# View
petal_length_cat[:4]
<#> ['small', 'small', 'small', 'small']