[jira] [Created] (SPARK-19781) Bucketizer's handleInvalid leave null values untouched unlike the NaNs

["Menglong TAN (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Menglong TAN created SPARK-19781:
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             Summary: Bucketizer's handleInvalid leave null values untouched unlike the NaNs
                 Key: SPARK-19781
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-19781
             Project: Spark
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: MLlib
    Affects Versions: 2.1.0
            Reporter: Menglong TAN
            Priority: Minor


Bucketizer can put NaN values into a special bucket when handleInvalid is on. but leave null values untouched.

   import org.apache.spark.ml.feature.Bucketizer
   val data = sc.parallelize(Seq(("crackcell", null.asInstanceOf[java.lang.Double]))).toDF("name", "number")
   val bucketizer = new Bucketizer().setInputCol("number").setOutputCol("number_output").setSplits(Array(Double.NegativeInfinity, 0, 10, Double.PositiveInfinity)).setHandleInvalid("keep")
   val res = bucketizer.transform(data)
   res.show(1)

will output:

   +---------+------+-------------+
   |     name|number|number_output|
   +---------+------+-------------+
   |crackcell|  null|         null|
   +---------+------+-------------+

If we change null to NaN:

   val data2 = sc.parallelize(Seq(("crackcell", Double.NaN))).toDF("name", "number")
data2: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [name: string, number: double]
   bucketizer.transform(data2).show(1)

will output:

   +---------+------+-------------+
   |     name|number|number_output|
   +---------+------+-------------+
   |crackcell|   NaN|          3.0|
   +---------+------+-------------+

Maybe we should unify the behaviours? Is it resonable to process nulls as well? If so, maybe my code can help. :-)



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