Mean Encoding Visually Explained using Excel

Mean Encoding is done for each unique value of the categorical feature. It is encoded based on the ratio of occurrence of the positive class in the target variable.

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[kishlayamourya]

Best explanation of target encoding.... thank you.

[datamatrix]

Thank you so much
Such a great explanation

[akmalmir]

Thank You Kunaal, now i understand it easily

[prasadmahadik]

Is this we can use for only classification ?? What about Regression ? please tell me.. i am lil confuse...

[ram]

hey kunal
How do we replicate this in real life since target data of test set is usually not available to us.