You could also use dummy coding to convert categorical feature to numeric feature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_variable#Dummy_coding Sincerely, DB Tsai ------------------------------------------------------- My Blog: https://www.dbtsai.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbtsai On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Xiangrui Meng <men...@gmail.com> wrote: > It depends on how you want to use the string features. For the day of > the week, you can replace it with 6 binary features indicating > Mon/Tue/Wed/Th/Fri/Sat. -Xiangrui > > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 5:31 AM, praveshjain1991 > <praveshjain1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have been trying to use LR in Spark's Java API. I used the dataset given >> along with Spark for the training and testing purposes. >> >> Now i want to use it on another dataset that contains string values along >> with numbers. Is there any way to do this? >> >> I am attaching the Dataset that i want to use. >> >> Thanks and Regards, Test.data >> <http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/file/n5523/Test.data> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Using-String-Dataset-for-Logistic-Regression-tp5523.html >> Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
