Skip to content

Commit db60ab6

Browse files
ebrassellgfyoung
authored andcommitted
DOC: Correct misuse of term high-cardinality in docs. (#29811)
1 parent de28255 commit db60ab6

File tree

1 file changed

+3
-3
lines changed

1 file changed

+3
-3
lines changed

doc/source/user_guide/scale.rst

+3-3
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ Use efficient datatypes
9393
-----------------------
9494

9595
The default pandas data types are not the most memory efficient. This is
96-
especially true for high-cardinality text data (columns with relatively few
97-
unique values). By using more efficient data types you can store larger datasets
98-
in memory.
96+
especially true for text data columns with relatively few unique values (commonly
97+
referred to as "low-cardinality" data). By using more efficient data types you
98+
can store larger datasets in memory.
9999

100100
.. ipython:: python
101101

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)