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Concept

High-cardinality

High-cardinality describes a categorical feature that takes on a large number of distinct values relative to your row count. A country column has low cardinality (~200 values); a user_id, zip_code, or product_sku column can have tens of thousands or millions of…

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High-cardinality, explained · Fig. 1