Python “TypeError: unhashable type: 'slice'” for encoding categorical data

Question

I am getting

TypeError: unhashable type: \'slice\'

when executing the below code for encoding categorical data in Python. Can a

Answer 1

if you use .Values while creating the matrix X and Y vectors it will fix the problem.

y=dataset.iloc[:, 4].values

X=dataset.iloc[:, 0:4].values

when you use .Values it creates a Object representation of the created matrix will be returned with the axes removed. Check the below link for more information

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.values.html