Factor analysis of mixed data - allow aaplying a PCA kernel to mixed datas numericals and strings. Please note that you have to remove string variables with too many categories such as individual idents before treatment. Usually this treatment is used before a clustering method as Kmeans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_analysis_of_mixed_data
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