simple operator or method for combining nominal categories?

Hi,
Replace Rare Values in Operator Toolbox is your friend

BR,
Martin

Hi @Telcontar120

If I understood your problem well, I would do something like this:

• Generate a new field containing the frequency, alongside your category.
• Generate a second field doing some discretization on the frequency, not the params.
• Generate a third field with some code: if(frequency > 50;[Category];"Other").
• Use the third field with the "combined" target.

But now I'm wondering if there is anything I missed about the whole question, as my solution sounds too simplistic to me at least.

All the best, sensei!

Rodrigo.

Thanks guys for the fast replies.  Both approaches would work, but @rfuentealba you should check out the single operator that @mschmitz mentions because that is exactly what I wanted!  

Awesome! I didn't know about it. Thank you both.

Great question @mschmitz !  I searched for "nominal" with various combinations of "categories values discretize map replace".  It's probably my fault that I didn't think to search using only "replace" or "map" since I am aware of other RapidMiner operators with these names that are similar, but I was thinking they would require manual mapping which I wanted to avoid.  I would say "nominal" is a key term because in this use case there are other similar operators (the "discretize" ones) that only work on numericals so I was trying to focus on those operators that would work with nominals.  I realize your operator will work with any data type but with numericals I think you are much less likely to be searching for specific values to replace (since a continuous numerical attribute may have many individual values that are very infrequent).  

I'm not a native English speaker. I would have used "(discretize, summarize, replace, map, remap, regroup) weird values" (because "raro" is a common word in Spanish for both "weird" and "rare"). To be honest, I am not the kind of people who uses the search to discover new things because of the language gap.

On a slightly humorous note: Yes, I have to think before reacting when someone says I am "as rare as a Unicorn", because my first instinct usually tells me that I am "as weird as a Unicorn".