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[jira] [Closed] (SPARK-18783) ML StringIndexer does not work with nested fields

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18783?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Joseph K. Bradley closed SPARK-18783.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

> ML StringIndexer does not work with nested fields
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-18783
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18783
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: ML
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: manuel garrido
>
> Using StringIndexer.transform with a nested field (from parsing json data) results in the output dataframe not having the new column.
> {code}
> sample = [
>  {'city': u'',
>   'device': {u'make': u'HTC',
>    u'os': u'Android'}
>  },
>  {'city': u'Bangalore',
>   'device': {u'make': u'Xiaomi',
>    u'os': u'Android'}
>  },
>  {'city': u'Overpelt',
>   'device': {u'make': u'Samsung',
>    u'os': u'Android'}
>  }
> ]
> sample_df = sc.parallelize(sample).toDF()
> # First we use a StringIndexer with a non nested field
> city_indexer = StringIndexer(inputCol="city", outputCol="cityIndex", handleInvalid="skip")
> city_indexed = city_indexer.fit(sample_df).transform(sample_df)
> print([i.asDict() for i in city_indexed.collect()])
> >>>[{'device': {u'make': u'HTC', u'os': u'Android'}, 'city': u'', 'cityIndex': 0.0}, {'device': {u'make': u'Xiaomi', u'os': u'Android'}, 'city': u'Bangalore', 'cityIndex': 2.0}, {'device': {u'make': u'Samsung', u'os': u'Android'}, 'city': u'Overpelt', 'cityIndex': 1.0}]
> # Now we try with a nested field
> os_indexer = StringIndexer(inputCol="device.os", outputCol="osIndex", handleInvalid="skip")
> os_indexed = os_indexer.fit(sample_df).transform(sample_df)
> print([i.asDict() for i in os_indexed.collect()])
> >>>[{'device': {u'make': u'HTC', u'os': u'Android'}, 'city': u''}, {'device': {u'make': u'Xiaomi', u'os': u'Android'}, 'city': u'Bangalore'}, {'device': {u'make': u'Samsung', u'os': u'Android'}, 'city': u'Overpelt'}]  #===> we see the field osIndex is not showing up
> #If we rename the same field device.os as a flat field it works as expected
> os_indexer = StringIndexer(inputCol="device_os", outputCol="osIndex", handleInvalid="skip")
> os_indexed = os_indexer.fit(
>     sample_df.withColumn('device_os', col('device.os'))
>     ).transform(
>     sample_df.withColumn('device_os', col('device.os'))
>     )
> print([i.asDict() for i in os_indexed.collect()])
> {code}



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