Python environment

Developer’s team provide compatibility with libraries such as scipy and scikit-learn.

How to make Gower compatible

User can not call our metric directly in those libraries, due to the fact that those libraries expect numerical input data. Therefore, user needs to first transform the original data into its numerical representation using the transform or fit_transform methods. More information with examples can be found in following subsections.

Note

We are aware that calling external libraries can be slower in performance. User can try to optimize the pipeline binary calculating Gower’s distance matrix first using our implementation, and then passing the resulting distance matrix to external libraries.

Examples can be found in the examples folder of the repository.

• SciPy
• Scikit-learn