CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

OneHotEncoder(categorical_features=

#Encoding the categorical data
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder

labelencoder_X = LabelEncoder()
X[:,0] = labelencoder_X.fit_transform(X[:,0])

#we are dummy encoding as the machine learning algorithms will be
#confused with the values like Spain > Germany > France
from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder

onehotencoder = OneHotEncoder(categorical_features=[0])
X = onehotencoder.fit_transform(X).toarray()