One Hot Encoding

The One Hot Encoding function is used to convert categorical data into a numerical format that can be used by Machine Learning libraries.

This feature is in the alpha tier. For more information on feature tiers, see API Tiers.

One Hot Encoding sample

One hot encoding will return a list equal to the length of the available values. In the list, selected values are represented by 1, and unselected values are represented by 0.

The following will run the algorithm on hardcoded lists:

RETURN gds.alpha.ml.oneHotEncoding(['Chinese', 'Indian', 'Italian'], ['Italian']) AS value

Table 1. Results
value
[0,0,1]

The following will create a sample graph:

CREATE (french:Cuisine {name:'French'}),
 (italian:Cuisine {name:'Italian'}),
 (indian:Cuisine {name:'Indian'}),
 (zhen:Person {name: "Zhen"}),
 (praveena:Person {name: "Praveena"}),
 (michael:Person {name: "Michael"}),
 (arya:Person {name: "Arya"}),
 (praveena)-[:LIKES]->(indian),
 (zhen)-[:LIKES]->(french),
 (michael)-[:LIKES]->(french),
 (michael)-[:LIKES]->(italian)

The following will return a one hot encoding for each user and the types of cuisine that they like:

MATCH (cuisine:Cuisine)
WITH cuisine
 ORDER BY cuisine.name
WITH collect(cuisine) AS cuisines
MATCH (p:Person)
RETURN p.name AS name, gds.alpha.ml.oneHotEncoding(cuisines, [(p)-[:LIKES]->(cuisine) | cuisine]) AS value
 ORDER BY name

Table 2. Results
name	value
Arya	[0,0,0]
Michael	[1,0,1]
Praveena	[0,1,0]
Zhen	[1,0,0]

Table 3. Parameters
Name	Type	Default	Optional	Description
`availableValues`	list	null	yes	The available values. If null, the function will return an empty list.
`selectedValues`	list	null	yes	The selected values. If null, the function will return a list of all 0’s.

Table 4. Results
Type	Description
`list`	One hot encoding of the selected values.