Vishnu, VectorIndexer <http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ml-features.html#vectorindexer> will add metadata regarding which features are categorical and what are continuous depending on the threshold, if there are more different unique values than the *MaxCategories *parameter, they will be treated as continuous. That will help the learning algorithms as they will be treated differently. >From the data I can see you have more than one Vector in the features column? Try using some Vectors with only two different values.
Regards. 2015-10-15 10:14 GMT+01:00 VISHNU SUBRAMANIAN <johnfedrickena...@gmail.com>: > HI All, > > I am trying to use the VectorIndexer (FeatureExtraction) technique > available from the Spark ML Pipelines. > > I ran the example in the documentation . > > val featureIndexer = new VectorIndexer() > .setInputCol("features") > .setOutputCol("indexedFeatures") > .setMaxCategories(4) > .fit(data) > > > And then I wanted to see what output it generates. > > After performing transform on the data set , the output looks like below. > > scala> predictions.select("indexedFeatures").take(1).foreach(println) > > > [(692,[124,125,126,127,151,152,153,154,155,179,180,181,182,183,208,209,210,211,235,236,237,238,239,263,264,265,266,267,268,292,293,294,295,296,321,322,323,324,349,350,351,352,377,378,379,380,405,406,407,408,433,434,435,436,461,462,463,464,489,490,491,492,493,517,518,519,520,521,545,546,547,548,549,574,575,576,577,578,602,603,604,605,606,630,631,632,633,634,658,659,660,661,662],[145.0,255.0,211.0,31.0,32.0,237.0,253.0,252.0,71.0,11.0,175.0,253.0,252.0,71.0,144.0,253.0,252.0,71.0,16.0,191.0,253.0,252.0,71.0,26.0,221.0,253.0,252.0,124.0,31.0,125.0,253.0,252.0,252.0,108.0,253.0,252.0,252.0,108.0,255.0,253.0,253.0,108.0,253.0,252.0,252.0,108.0,253.0,252.0,252.0,108.0,253.0,252.0,252.0,108.0,255.0,253.0,253.0,170.0,253.0,252.0,252.0,252.0,42.0,149.0,252.0,252.0,252.0,144.0,109.0,252.0,252.0,252.0,144.0,218.0,253.0,253.0,255.0,35.0,175.0,252.0,252.0,253.0,35.0,73.0,252.0,252.0,253.0,35.0,31.0,211.0,252.0,253.0,35.0])] > > > scala> predictions.select("features").take(1).foreach(println) > > > [(692,[124,125,126,127,151,152,153,154,155,179,180,181,182,183,208,209,210,211,235,236,237,238,239,263,264,265,266,267,268,292,293,294,295,296,321,322,323,324,349,350,351,352,377,378,379,380,405,406,407,408,433,434,435,436,461,462,463,464,489,490,491,492,493,517,518,519,520,521,545,546,547,548,549,574,575,576,577,578,602,603,604,605,606,630,631,632,633,634,658,659,660,661,662],[145.0,255.0,211.0,31.0,32.0,237.0,253.0,252.0,71.0,11.0,175.0,253.0,252.0,71.0,144.0,253.0,252.0,71.0,16.0,191.0,253.0,252.0,71.0,26.0,221.0,253.0,252.0,124.0,31.0,125.0,253.0,252.0,252.0,108.0,253.0,252.0,252.0,108.0,255.0,253.0,253.0,108.0,253.0,252.0,252.0,108.0,253.0,252.0,252.0,108.0,253.0,252.0,252.0,108.0,255.0,253.0,253.0,170.0,253.0,252.0,252.0,252.0,42.0,149.0,252.0,252.0,252.0,144.0,109.0,252.0,252.0,252.0,144.0,218.0,253.0,253.0,255.0,35.0,175.0,252.0,252.0,253.0,35.0,73.0,252.0,252.0,253.0,35.0,31.0,211.0,252.0,253.0,35.0])] > > I can,t understand what is happening. I tried with simple data sets also , > but similar result. > > Please help. > > Thanks, > > Vishnu > > > > > > > >