vector_indexer_example.py

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from __future__ import print_function

# $example on$
from pyspark.ml.feature import VectorIndexer
# $example off$
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

if __name__ == "__main__":
    spark = SparkSession\
        .builder\
        .appName("VectorIndexerExample")\
        .getOrCreate()

    # $example on$
    data = spark.read.format("libsvm").load("data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt")
    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)
    indexedData.show()
    # $example off$

    spark.stop()