dummies.example

A dataset containing Census results from the American Community Survey 2015

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Creates dummy columns from columns that have categorical variables (character or factor types). This package provides a significant speed increase from creating dummy variables through model.matrix().

Jacob Kaplan

fastDummies

Fast Creation of Dummy (Binary) Columns from Categorical
Variables

dummies.example function

A data frame with 100000 rows and 17 variables:
<dl class="dl-horizontal">
  <dt>YEAR</dt><dd>Year of surey</dd>
  <dt>STATEFIP</dt><dd>FIP ID for the state</dd>
  <dt>COUNTYFIPS</dt><dd>FIP ID for the county</dd>
  <dt>OWNERSHP</dt><dd>If the respondent owns their home</dd>
  <dt>PERWT</dt><dd>Survey weight for the respondent</dd>
  <dt>NCHILD</dt><dd>Number of children in the home</dd>
  <dt>SEX</dt><dd>Sex of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>AGE</dt><dd>Age of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>MARST</dt><dd>Marital status of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>RACE</dt><dd>Race of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>HISPAN</dt><dd>If the respondent is hispanic</dd>
  <dt>BPL</dt><dd>Birthplace of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>EDUC</dt><dd>Education of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>EMPSTAT</dt><dd>Employment status of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>FTOTINC</dt><dd>Family yearly income</dd>
  <dt>POVERTY</dt><dd>If they are below the poverty line</dd>
  <dt>MOVEDIN</dt><dd>When the respondent moved into their home</dd>
</dl>

Format

United States Census data for 2015 — dummies.example

A data frame with 100000 rows and 17 variables:
<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
  <dt>YEAR</dt><dd>Year of surey</dd>
  <dt>STATEFIP</dt><dd>FIP ID for the state</dd>
  <dt>COUNTYFIPS</dt><dd>FIP ID for the county</dd>
  <dt>OWNERSHP</dt><dd>If the respondent owns their home</dd>
  <dt>PERWT</dt><dd>Survey weight for the respondent</dd>
  <dt>NCHILD</dt><dd>Number of children in the home</dd>
  <dt>SEX</dt><dd>Sex of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>AGE</dt><dd>Age of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>MARST</dt><dd>Marital status of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>RACE</dt><dd>Race of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>HISPAN</dt><dd>If the respondent is hispanic</dd>
  <dt>BPL</dt><dd>Birthplace of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>EDUC</dt><dd>Education of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>EMPSTAT</dt><dd>Employment status of the respondent</dd>
  <dt>FTOTINC</dt><dd>Family yearly income</dd>
  <dt>POVERTY</dt><dd>If they are below the poverty line</dd>
  <dt>MOVEDIN</dt><dd>When the respondent moved into their home</dd>
</dl>

dummies.example: United States Census data for 2015

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