How to generate dummies data with Pandas in Python?

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How to generate dummies data with Python.

The answer is quite simple.

If you want 0 and 1 and don't care about their distributions you can use the pandas.get_dummies() method.

# We generate a dataframe with dummies data
df = pd.get_dummies(["col1","col2","col3"])

If you CARE about their respective distribution, then you should check the following post where I will talk about Data Generative Processes using random distribution.

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Here you are! You now know how to generate dummies data with Pandas in Python.

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