I'm trying to create a series of dummy variables from a categorical variable using pandas in python. I've come across the get_dummies function, but whenever I try to call it I receive an error that the name is not defined. Any thoughts or other ways to create the dummy variables would be appreciated. EDIT: Since others seem to be coming across this, the get_dummies function in pandas now works perfectly fine. This means the following should work: import pandas as pd dummies = pd.get_dummies(df['Category']) See http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/logistic-regression-and-python.html for further information. Continue reading...
