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author | Joseph K. Bradley <joseph@databricks.com> | 2015-05-21 13:05:48 -0700 |
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committer | Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com> | 2015-05-21 13:05:48 -0700 |
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[SPARK-7585] [ML] [DOC] VectorIndexer user guide section
Added VectorIndexer section to ML user guide. Also added javaCategoryMaps() method and Java unit test for it.
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Author: Joseph K. Bradley <joseph@databricks.com>
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f692084 [Joseph K. Bradley] Added VectorIndexer section to ML user guide. Also added javaCategoryMaps() method and Java unit test for it.
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diff --git a/docs/ml-features.md b/docs/ml-features.md index 235029d71f..06f1ac196b 100644 --- a/docs/ml-features.md +++ b/docs/ml-features.md @@ -535,5 +535,88 @@ encoded = encoder.transform(indexed) </div> </div> +## VectorIndexer + +`VectorIndexer` helps index categorical features in datasets of `Vector`s. +It can both automatically decide which features are categorical and convert original values to category indices. Specifically, it does the following: + +1. Take an input column of type [Vector](api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vector) and a parameter `maxCategories`. +2. Decide which features should be categorical based on the number of distinct values, where features with at most `maxCategories` are declared categorical. +3. Compute 0-based category indices for each categorical feature. +4. Index categorical features and transform original feature values to indices. + +Indexing categorical features allows algorithms such as Decision Trees and Tree Ensembles to treat categorical features appropriately, improving performance. + +Please refer to the [VectorIndexer API docs](api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.ml.feature.VectorIndexer) for more details. + +In the example below, we read in a dataset of labeled points and then use `VectorIndexer` to decide which features should be treated as categorical. We transform the categorical feature values to their indices. This transformed data could then be passed to algorithms such as `DecisionTreeRegressor` that handle categorical features. + +<div class="codetabs"> +<div data-lang="scala" markdown="1"> +{% highlight scala %} +import org.apache.spark.ml.feature.VectorIndexer +import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLUtils + +val data = MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(sc, "data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt").toDF() +val indexer = new VectorIndexer() + .setInputCol("features") + .setOutputCol("indexed") + .setMaxCategories(10) +val indexerModel = indexer.fit(data) +val categoricalFeatures: Set[Int] = indexerModel.categoryMaps.keys.toSet +println(s"Chose ${categoricalFeatures.size} categorical features: " + + categoricalFeatures.mkString(", ")) + +// Create new column "indexed" with categorical values transformed to indices +val indexedData = indexerModel.transform(data) +{% endhighlight %} +</div> + +<div data-lang="java" markdown="1"> +{% highlight java %} +import java.util.Map; + +import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD; +import org.apache.spark.ml.feature.VectorIndexer; +import org.apache.spark.ml.feature.VectorIndexerModel; +import org.apache.spark.mllib.regression.LabeledPoint; +import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLUtils; +import org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame; + +JavaRDD<LabeledPoint> rdd = MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(sc.sc(), + "data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt").toJavaRDD(); +DataFrame data = sqlContext.createDataFrame(rdd, LabeledPoint.class); +VectorIndexer indexer = new VectorIndexer() + .setInputCol("features") + .setOutputCol("indexed") + .setMaxCategories(10); +VectorIndexerModel indexerModel = indexer.fit(data); +Map<Integer, Map<Double, Integer>> categoryMaps = indexerModel.javaCategoryMaps(); +System.out.print("Chose " + categoryMaps.size() + "categorical features:"); +for (Integer feature : categoryMaps.keySet()) { + System.out.print(" " + feature); +} +System.out.println(); + +// Create new column "indexed" with categorical values transformed to indices +DataFrame indexedData = indexerModel.transform(data); +{% endhighlight %} +</div> + +<div data-lang="python" markdown="1"> +{% highlight python %} +from pyspark.ml.feature import VectorIndexer +from pyspark.mllib.util import MLUtils + +data = MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(sc, "data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt").toDF() +indexer = VectorIndexer(inputCol="features", outputCol="indexed", maxCategories=10) +indexerModel = indexer.fit(data) + +# Create new column "indexed" with categorical values transformed to indices +indexedData = indexerModel.transform(data) +{% endhighlight %} +</div> +</div> + # Feature Selectors |