Is normalization needed for TargetEncoded Variables?
Basically the title.
If I encode the address of people (the cities they live in) with a target encoder, do I still need to normalize that column? Of course, the capital is going to have more citizens and bigger cities also, so it looks kinda like an exponential distribution. In such a case, is normalization still needed (via a log transform for example), or are target encoded variables enough? Why?
Thank you!
Topic target-encoding normalization data-cleaning
Category Data Science