Linear regression Multi variable with non numeric values

Course Q&A Machine Learning Specialization Supervised ML: Regression and Classification
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My housing data has some features encoded as text fields e.g., Availability as Ready to Move/Under Construction. Size as Super builtup / carpet area, etc. How to do linear regression multi variables for this?

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Please see categorical variable

3

You must convert all data fields into numbers.

Generally, they will become either booleans (0 or 1), or will be one-hot coded.