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.
pip install --user mcaPlease refer to the usage notes and this illustrated ipython notebook.
- Michael Greenacre, Jörg Blasius (2006). Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods, CRC Press. ISBN 1584886285.
- François Husson, Multiple Correspondence Analysis Youtube Playlist, Youtube