Only integers in colab for our project? [closed]

Question

Do we only use integers in colab? For example, do we need to change everything to integers or can it handle strings, booleans, etc?

Answer 1

Sklearn needs everything to be a number (could be float instead of int though).

I think booleans might automatically convert to a 0/1, so you might not need to change those.

Strings will not work. (But you could use a label encoder in scikit learn to turn every string into a number, or make a separate column for each possible value of the string that you care about, with a 0/1 value representing whether that value is present.)