Data Prep for Machine Learning: Normalization. Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full code sample and screenshots to show how to programmatically normalize numeric data for use in a ...

Data encoding and normalization for machine learning To use categorical data for machine classification, you need to encode the text labels into another form. There are two common encodings.

“In other words, when I’m in my machine learning framework, and I’m figuring out how we get from this set of inputs to a really good prediction, I might normalize that data.” Some normalization may be ...