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Help · 30 Jun 2020, 19:37 · 9

How do we handle the aircraft code and flight number

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Federal University of Technology Akure

Is it possible to use Bag of Word?

30 Jun 2020, 23:59
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No,

They are not actual words,they are abbrievation or so.

not too sure though

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Federal University of Technology Akure

Yes, that's true, I thought of it when I woke up. There are no actual words the classifier could understand.

If we are able to visit there website, I think.

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Federal University of Technology Akure

You can encode it. There are about 138 countries. I tried frequency encoding. Do you have a better opinion.

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I guess the flight ID should partain to an airline, and the aircraft code should be aircraft scheduled by an airline for a particular destination. You could have different aircrafts with a similar flight number wch means that those aircrafts have been scheduled for different destinations. Hence you could encode them using any of the categorical encoding techniques and/or use them to generate new features like the mean flight delays for an aircraft with such flight number and so on. Hope this helps.

Hmm,it was helpful

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Federal University of Technology Akure

It's will. Thanks so much.