Вам необходимо применить многократное кодирование для столбца application
и одно горячее кодирование для других столбцов.
Вот мое решение!
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> import numpy as np
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'number': np.random.randint(0,10,size=5),
'device': np.random.choice(['a','b'],size=5),
'application': ['app2;app3','app1','app2;app4', 'app1;app2', 'app1'],
'district': np.random.choice(['aa', 'bb', 'cc'],size=5)})
>>> df
application device district number
0 app2;app3 b aa 3
1 app1 a cc 7
2 app2;app4 a aa 3
3 app1;app2 b bb 9
4 app1 a cc 4
from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder, MultiLabelBinarizer
lb = MultiLabelBinarizer()
# Assuming appl names are separated by ;
mhv = mlb.fit_transform(df['application'].apply(lambda x: set(x.split(';'))))
df_out = pd.DataFrame(mhv,columns=mlb.classes_)
enc = OneHotEncoder(sparse=False)
ohe_vars = ['device','district'] # specify the list of columns here
ohv = enc.fit_transform(df.loc[:,ohe_vars])
ohe_col_names = ['%s_%s'%(var,cat) for var,cats in zip(ohe_vars, enc.categories_) for cat in cats]
df_out.assign(**dict(zip(ohe_col_names,ohv.T)))
df_out