html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/3763#issuecomment-583874997,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3763,583874997,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU4Mzg3NDk5Nw==,8419157,2020-02-09T18:07:00Z,2020-02-09T18:07:00Z,NONE,"I suggest that in order to convince xarrsy developers to help you is to provide an example data and show what you have tried with your string encoding solution and describe applications for the method. You should check out pandas which xarrsy extends and is more widely used then xarray. Hopefully someone have a similar problem as you with pandas and you can write here how to apply their solutions. ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,562075354 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/3763#issuecomment-583840504,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3763,583840504,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU4Mzg0MDUwNA==,8419157,2020-02-09T12:39:08Z,2020-02-09T12:39:08Z,NONE,"Sounds like a technique in data science, [encoding strings](https://towardsdatascience.com/categorical-encoding-using-label-encoding-and-one-hot-encoder-911ef77fb5bd), which is actually number of different techniques.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,562075354