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by anonDataUser 5289 days ago
Tried this on a set of data that I have been looking at recently, and was not impressed. The software actually assumes all fields contain numerical data. Why not handle nominal data? Also doesn't handle temporal data. Maybe this is theoretically interesting but practically it is useless.
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Is it possible to transform the temporal and nominal data into something with a numerical scale? For example, seconds since a certain date, or number ranking of the numerical data.
Or just not as generalizable as you'd wish?