{"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/shogun-toolbox/shogun/comments/9690493","html_url":"https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/commit/a3270b040e520d00238d747156acc9cc5b5746e6#commitcomment-9690493","id":9690493,"user":{"login":"iglesias","id":1158006,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1158006?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/iglesias","html_url":"https://github.com/iglesias","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iglesias/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iglesias/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iglesias/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iglesias/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iglesias/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iglesias/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iglesias/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iglesias/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iglesias/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"position":4,"line":105,"path":"src/interfaces/modular/Kernel.i","commit_id":"a3270b040e520d00238d747156acc9cc5b5746e6","created_at":"2015-02-11T08:09:38Z","updated_at":"2015-02-11T08:09:38Z","body":"I believe we don't. For decision trees, Parijat was converting the\ncategorical variables to floats (see the second Python code cell in\nhttp://shogun-toolbox.org/static/notebook/current/DecisionTrees.html). But\nthat may be also because decision trees support numerical and categorical\nvariables.\n\nOn 10 February 2015 at 12:46, Heiko Strathmann <notifications@github.com>\nwrote:\n\n> yeah go ahead, needs a proper clean up before merge though\n> I might do this soon since I need it for an experiment\n> But we do not have proper categorical data representation, do we?\n>\n> —\n> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub\n> <https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/commit/a3270b040e520d00238d747156acc9cc5b5746e6#commitcomment-9673392>\n> .\n>\n"}}