Great, now I have to go down the proverbial rabbit hole to find the Gower implementation in python.

Therefore, we use the Gower distance which is a metric that can be used to calculate the distance between two entities whose attributes are a mix of categorical and quantitative values. This distance is scaled in a numerical range of 0 (identical) and 1 (maximally dissimilar). The details about the mathematics of Gower distance are quite complicated and left out for another a…
Clustering datasets having both numerical and categorical variables
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Great, now I have to go down the proverbial rabbit hole to find the Gower implementation in python. Thanks a lot! :)
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