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how to deal with ID coloum?
Data · 1 Jul 2021, 09:32 · edited 4 minutes later · 6
can someone help me how do i deal with ID coloumn? while i am trying to fit the model i am getting the error "could not convert string to float". ID_7SDHDVF. in my data frame my ID coloumn is Dtype- Object. 
here is my notebook 
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1JlwggI8j3xQcfKRF-SGcjsoYM09x9dAy?usp=sharing
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Dara_Adepoju
1 Jul 2021, 09:46

Hi, you should drop the ID column. It's not necessary

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kruzer1138
2 Jul 2021, 12:19replied to Dara_Adepoju

thanks a lot ! will try .

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kruzer1138
9 Jul 2021, 20:03replied to Dara_Adepoju

hello dara, as the competition is over can you please share your notebook , only for my learning purpose only. if it is possible please share it really helps me to learn. thanks a lot !!

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Dara_Adepoju
12 Jul 2021, 19:05replied to kruzer1138

Hi, I'm just seeing this, I will send you a private message so that we can talk more.

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Houssem_Kehal
1 Jul 2021, 09:48 (edited 5 minutes later)

X = full_df.drop(["ID","Policy Start Date"," Policy End Date","First Transaction Date","target"],axis = 1)

Except for the target, all these variables are object types you should drop from your dataset before training the model.

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kruzer1138
2 Jul 2021, 12:19replied to Houssem_Kehal

thanks a lot ! will try and check

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