PHP SVM - Feature engineering

Question

We have data for people going to school. Things like previous education level. Interests. Gender. Military status.

How do we convert these to integer/float values so we can throw them into an SVM model? Am I going about this the right way?

Side note, is the PHP SVM module an ok thing for just doing some simple modeling? Or is it not worth using?

What are you trying to achieve using this data? – Artem Sobolev Feb 04 '15 at 17:52 — Artem Sobolev, Feb 04 '15 at 17:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '15 at 18:20

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I found the answer. The answer is to make matrices out of the options. So gender would become male and female as 2 separate columns, each with their own 0/1 value.

answered Feb 05 '15 at 18:20

Brett Evanson

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