Encoding a column

GapEncoder	Constructs latent topics with continuous encoding.
MinHashEncoder	Encode string categorical features by applying the MinHash method to n-gram decompositions of strings.
SimilarityEncoder	Encode string categories to a similarity matrix, to capture fuzziness across a few categories.
DatetimeEncoder	Extract temporal features such as month, day of the week, … from a datetime column.
ToCategorical	Convert a string column to Categorical dtype.
ToDatetime	Parse datetimes represented as strings and return Datetime columns.

to_datetime

Convert DataFrame or column to Datetime dtype.