Clustering on Mixed Data Types in Python

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During my first ever data science internship, I was given a seemingly simple task to find clusters within a dataset. Given my basic knowledge of clustering algorithms like K-Means, DBSCAN, and GMM I thought that I could easily get this task done. However, as I took a closer look into the dataset, I realized the data contained a mixture of categorical and continuous data, and many common methods of clustering I knew…