:og:title: transform_cat() - DataSafari Official Docs
:og:description: Transform categorical variables in a DataFrame through a range of encoding options and basic to advanced machine learning-based methods for uniform data cleaning.
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transform_cat()
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.. currentmodule:: datasafari.transformer

.. autofunction:: transform_cat