I have a dataset that looks like so -
yyyy month tmax tmin
0 1908 January 5.0 -1.4
1 1908 February 7.3 1.9
2 1908 March 6.2 0.3
3 1908 April 7.4 2.1
4 1908 May 16.5 7.7
5 1908 June 17.7 8.7
6 1908 July 20.1 11.0
7 1908 August 17.5 9.7
8 1908 September 16.3 8.4
9 1908 October 14.6 8.0
10 1908 November 9.6 3.4
11 1908 December 5.8 -0.3
12 1909 January 5.0 0.1
13 1909 February 5.5 -0.3
14 1909 March 5.6 -0.3
15 1909 April 12.2 3.3
16 1909 May 14.7 4.8
17 1909 June 15.0 7.5
18 1909 July 17.3 10.8
19 1909 August 18.8 10.7
20 1909 September 14.5 8.1
21 1909 October 12.9 6.9
22 1909 November 7.5 1.7
23 1909 December 5.3 0.4
24 1910 January 5.2 -0.5
...
It has four variables - yyyy, month, tmax(maximum temperature) and tmin
I want to use the month column as a variable while predictions and so want to convert it to its binary encoded version. Essentially, I want to add twelve variables to the dataset named January until December and if a particular row has month as "January" then the column January should be marked as 1 and the remaining of the newly added 11 columns should be 0.
I looked into pivot tables but that doesn't help my cause. Any ideas on how to do this in a simple elegant way?