Russian Federation
The relevance and areas of application of machine learning are investigated, one of the machine learn-ing algorithms - neural networks, as well as one of the data preparation processes before extracting a mathematical model - the coding of categorical features using the target coding method is consid-ered. Implemented a coding algorithm in the Python programming language
Machine learning, neural networks, data analysis, coding, programming.
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