Encoding a column

See encoding for further details.

StringEncoder	Generate a lightweight string encoding of a given column using tf-idf vectorization and truncated singular value decomposition (SVD).
TextEncoder	Encode string features by applying a pretrained language model downloaded from the HuggingFace Hub.
MinHashEncoder	Encode string categorical features by applying the MinHash method to n-gram decompositions of strings.
GapEncoder	Encode string columns by constructing latent topics.
SimilarityEncoder	Encode string categories to a similarity matrix, to capture fuzziness across a few categories.
ToCategorical	Convert a string column to Categorical dtype.
DatetimeEncoder	Extract temporal features such as month, day of the week, … from a datetime column.
ToDatetime	Parse datetimes represented as strings and return Datetime columns.
to_datetime	Convert DataFrame or column to Datetime dtype.