New Getting Started with vtreat Documentation

Win Vector LLC‘s Dr. Nina Zumel has just released some new vtreat documentation.

vtreat is a an all-in one step data preparation system that helps defend your machine learning algorithms from:

• Missing values
• Large cardinality categorical variables
• Novel levels from categorical variables

I hoped she could get the Python vtreat documentation up to parity with the R vtreat documentation. But I think she really hit the ball out of the park, and went way past that.

The new documentation is 3 “getting started” guides. These guides deliberately overlap, so you don’t have to read them all. Just read the one suited to your problem and go.

The new guides:

• Using vtreat with Classification Problems
• Using vtreat with Regression Problems
• Using vtreat with Unsupervised Problems and Non-Y-aware data treatment

Perhaps we can back-port the new guides to the R version at some point.