Try:

oneEncoder.fit_transform(df[["Col2"]]).todense()

Suppose we have:

features = pd.DataFrame({"Col2":["a","b","c"]})

Then:

oneEncoder= OneHotEncoder()
oneEncoder.fit_transform(features[["Col2"]]).todense()
matrix([[1., 0., 0.],
        [0., 1., 0.],
        [0., 0., 1.]])

If you're dealing with a Series object, you may wish to reshape it:

oneEncoder.fit_transform(features.Col2.values.reshape(-1,1)).todense()
matrix([[1., 0., 0.],
        [0., 1., 0.],
        [0., 0., 1.]])

Dropping todense() method will leave your transformation in a sparse matrix.

And finally, you may alway decode what the columns of your matrix mean by:

oneEncoder.categories_
[array(['a', 'b', 'c'], dtype=object)]

Not surpisingly, they are your unique inputs ordered alphabetically.

You can go directly to OneHotEncoding now without using the LabelEncoder, and as we move toward version 0.22 many might want to do things this way to avoid warnings and potential errors (see DOCS and EXAMPLES).

Example code 1 where ALL columns are encoded and where the categories are explicitly specified:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder

data= [["AUS", "Sri"],["USA","Vignesh"],["IND", "Pechi"],["USA","Raj"]]

df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=['Country', 'Name'])
X = df.values

countries = np.unique(X[:,0])
names = np.unique(X[:,1])

ohe = OneHotEncoder(categories=[countries, names])
X = ohe.fit_transform(X).toarray()

print (X)

Output for code example 1:

[[1. 0. 0. 0. 0. 1. 0.]
 [0. 0. 1. 0. 0. 0. 1.]
 [0. 1. 0. 1. 0. 0. 0.]
 [0. 0. 1. 0. 1. 0. 0.]]

Example code 2 showing the 'auto' option for specification of categories:

The first 3 columns encode the country names, the last four the personal names.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder

data= [["AUS", "Sri"],["USA","Vignesh"],["IND", "Pechi"],["USA","Raj"]]

df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=['Country', 'Name'])
X = df.values

ohe = OneHotEncoder(categories='auto')
X = ohe.fit_transform(X).toarray()

print (X)

Output for code example 2 (same as for 1):

[[1. 0. 0. 0. 0. 1. 0.]
 [0. 0. 1. 0. 0. 0. 1.]
 [0. 1. 0. 1. 0. 0. 0.]
 [0. 0. 1. 0. 1. 0. 0.]]

Example code 3 where only the first column is one hot encoded:

Now, here's the unique part. What if you only need to One Hot Encode a specific column for your data?

(Note: I've left the last column as strings for easier illustration. In reality it makes more sense to do this WHEN the last column was already numerical).

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder

data= [["AUS", "Sri"],["USA","Vignesh"],["IND", "Pechi"],["USA","Raj"]]

df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=['Country', 'Name'])
X = df.values

countries = np.unique(X[:,0])
names = np.unique(X[:,1])

ohe = OneHotEncoder(categories=[countries]) # specify ONLY unique country names
tmp = ohe.fit_transform(X[:,0].reshape(-1, 1)).toarray()

X = np.append(tmp, names.reshape(-1,1), axis=1)

print (X)

Output for code example 3:

[[1.0 0.0 0.0 'Pechi']
 [0.0 0.0 1.0 'Raj']
 [0.0 1.0 0.0 'Sri']
 [0.0 0.0 1.0 'Vignesh']]

Approach 1: You can use pandas' pd.get_dummies.

Example 1:

import pandas as pd
s = pd.Series(list('abca'))
pd.get_dummies(s)
Out[]: 
     a    b    c
0  1.0  0.0  0.0
1  0.0  1.0  0.0
2  0.0  0.0  1.0
3  1.0  0.0  0.0

Example 2:

The following will transform a given column into one hot. Use prefix to have multiple dummies.

import pandas as pd
        
df = pd.DataFrame({
          'A':['a','b','a'],
          'B':['b','a','c']
        })
df
Out[]: 
   A  B
0  a  b
1  b  a
2  a  c

# Get one hot encoding of columns B
one_hot = pd.get_dummies(df['B'])
# Drop column B as it is now encoded
df = df.drop('B',axis = 1)
# Join the encoded df
df = df.join(one_hot)
df  
Out[]: 
       A  a  b  c
    0  a  0  1  0
    1  b  1  0  0
    2  a  0  0  1

Approach 2: Use Scikit-learn

Using a OneHotEncoder has the advantage of being able to fit on some training data and then transform on some other data using the same instance. We also have handle_unknown to further control what the encoder does with unseen data.

Given a dataset with three features and four samples, we let the encoder find the maximum value per feature and transform the data to a binary one-hot encoding.

>>> from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder
>>> enc = OneHotEncoder()
>>> enc.fit([[0, 0, 3], [1, 1, 0], [0, 2, 1], [1, 0, 2]])   
OneHotEncoder(categorical_features='all', dtype=<class 'numpy.float64'>,
   handle_unknown='error', n_values='auto', sparse=True)
>>> enc.n_values_
array([2, 3, 4])
>>> enc.feature_indices_
array([0, 2, 5, 9], dtype=int32)
>>> enc.transform([[0, 1, 1]]).toarray()
array([[ 1.,  0.,  0.,  1.,  0.,  0.,  1.,  0.,  0.]])

Here is the link for this example: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.preprocessing.OneHotEncoder.html

OneHotEncoder Encodes categorical integer features as a one-hot numeric array. Its Transform method returns a sparse matrix if sparse=True, otherwise it returns a 2-d array.

You can't cast a 2-d array (or sparse matrix) into a Pandas Series. You must create a Pandas Serie (a column in a Pandas dataFrame) for each category.

I would recommend pandas.get_dummies instead:

data = pd.get_dummies(data,prefix=['Profession'], columns = ['Profession'], drop_first=True)

EDIT:

Using Sklearn OneHotEncoder:

transformed = jobs_encoder.transform(data['Profession'].to_numpy().reshape(-1, 1))
#Create a Pandas DataFrame of the hot encoded column
ohe_df = pd.DataFrame(transformed, columns=jobs_encoder.get_feature_names())
#concat with original data
data = pd.concat([data, ohe_df], axis=1).drop(['Profession'], axis=1)

Other Options: If you are doing hyperparameter tuning with GridSearch it's recommanded to use ColumnTransformer and FeatureUnion with Pipeline or directly make_column_transformer