How to Create Dummy Variables in Python with Pandas: A Beginners Guide

In this short Python tutorial, you will get the answer to the question "how do you create a dummy variable in Python?". Here, you will use Pandas read_csv, head, unique, and get_dummies method. Note, the last one is what you will use to create dummy variables. First, you will learn how to read your data from a csv file and have a quick look at the created Pandas dataframe. Second, you will learn how to create dummy variables in Python using pandas pd.get_dummies method: 1) Add prefix 2) Remove prefix After that, you have used a categorical variable with to levels, you will learn how to create dummy variables of a categorical variable with 3 levels. After that, you will learn how to make dummy variables from more than one column and how to change the prefix and prefix separator of your new dummy variables. » Make sure you subscribe to the channel if you haven't: http://bit.ly/SUB2EM » Blog post about creating dummy variables in Python: https://bit.ly/DummyVariablePython » Jupyter Notebook: https://bit.ly/ipynbDummies » Link to the dataset used: http://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/csv/carData/Salaries.csv » How to install Pandas: https://youtu.be/8Sipkd9vNKk If you need to learn more about importing data from CSV files with Pandas: