convert data to categorical python code example

Example 1: pandas categorical to numeric

#this will label the different catagories as 0,1,2,3....
dataset["sex"] = dataset["sex"].astype('category').cat.codes

Example 2: how to use label encoding in python

obj_df["body_style"] = obj_df["body_style"].astype('category')
obj_df.dtypes

obj_df["body_style_cat"] = obj_df["body_style"].cat.codes
obj_df.head()