To understand CDG 59, one must first understand the French concept of a Département . Created during the French Revolution to break down historical regional loyalties, the department is a fundamental administrative division. The "59" refers to the departmental number assigned to Nord, the most populous department in France outside of Paris and its suburbs.
# Assuming there are 5 unique identifiers categories = ['cdg58', 'cdg59', 'cdg60', 'cdg61', 'cdg62'] index = categories.index('cdg59') one_hot_encoded = np.zeros(len(categories)) one_hot_encoded[index] = 1 print(one_hot_encoded) To understand CDG 59, one must first understand