Handling missing values in structured data

Part 1 (2018)
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Hey all.

I understood that we can fill missing values in datasets by an integer that is not present in the dataset like -999 or the mean or median for integers. But what if the row is a string? E.g. a city row which has ‘NEw York’, ‘London’ etc - and the row also has missing values. How can I fill the missing values in this case?

Can I fill this with a unique string that does not appear elsewhere in the training/test datasets?

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You can just use the pandas missing value. We discuss this at length in the ML course, FYI.

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