mca is a Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) package for python, intended to be used with pandas. MCA is a feature extraction method; essentially PCA for categorical variables. You can use it, for example, to address multicollinearity or the curse of dimensionality with big categorical variables.
pip install --user mcaPlease refer to the usage notes and this illustrated ipython notebook <http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/esafak/mca/blob/master/docs/mca-BurgundiesExample.ipynb>.
Michael Greenacre, Jörg Blasius (2006). Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods, CRC Press. ISBN 1584886285.
