mca

mca is a Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) package for python, intended to be used with pandas. MCA is a feature extraction method; essentially PCA for categorical variables. You can use it, for example, to address multicollinearity or the curse of dimensionality with big categorical variables.

Installation

pip install --user mca

Usage

Please refer to the usage notes and this illustrated ipython notebook.

Reference

Michael Greenacre, Jörg Blasius (2006). Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods, CRC Press. ISBN 1584886285.