Apply Leakage-Safe Imputation and Ordinal Encoding
Company: Capital One
Role: Data Scientist
Category: Machine Learning
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Online Assessment
Overview: Explain leakage-safe imputation and ordinal encoding for train and test data. Cover fit versus transform, business-defined category order, unseen levels, cross-validation, and stable output schemas.
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