Use categorical dtype for categorical features #603
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The categorical 'actiontype', 'result', 'bodypart' and 'bodypart_detailed' features now have dtype "pd.Categorical". This allows machine learning frameworks such as xgboost to automatically recognize these features as being categorical and handle them accordingly.
The features are now strings (e.g., "pass") instead of integer ids. Also, the column name for each of these features was renamed as follows: type_id -> actiontype
result_id -> result
bodypart_id -> bodypart