What are the machine learning classifiers that can handle directly categorical data

SA_H
SA_H New Altair Community Member
edited November 2024 in Community Q&A
What are the machine learning classifiers, rather than DT, that can handle both numerical variables and categorical predictors (without converting them to numerical data).
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  • tftemme
    tftemme New Altair Community Member
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    Hi @summer_helmi,

    We (RapidMiner) have a helpful model selection app, for exactly this kind of questions: https://mod.rapidminer.com/#app
    You can select some properties of your data (for example the data types you have) and it provides you with a selection of applicable machine learning algorithms. Please also have a look at the Docs of the algorithms.

    If you are already running RapidMiner, you can also press F1 on a machine learning operator to see the Capabilities of an operator.

    Best regards,
    Fabian

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  • varunm1
    varunm1 New Altair Community Member
    Hello @summer_helmi

    Most of the tree based algorithms and Naive bayes will deal with categorical data. There is also a variant of KNN that can handle this type of data.
  • tftemme
    tftemme New Altair Community Member
    Answer ✓
    Hi @summer_helmi,

    We (RapidMiner) have a helpful model selection app, for exactly this kind of questions: https://mod.rapidminer.com/#app
    You can select some properties of your data (for example the data types you have) and it provides you with a selection of applicable machine learning algorithms. Please also have a look at the Docs of the algorithms.

    If you are already running RapidMiner, you can also press F1 on a machine learning operator to see the Capabilities of an operator.

    Best regards,
    Fabian

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