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[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-6823) Add a model.matrix like capability to DataFrames (modelDataFrame)

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Shivaram Venkataraman commented on SPARK-6823:
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[~ekhliang] [~mengxr] Is this addressed by the StringType PR ? I'm wondering if we can resolve this issue

> Add a model.matrix like capability to DataFrames (modelDataFrame)
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>                 Key: SPARK-6823
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6823
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: ML, SparkR
>            Reporter: Shivaram Venkataraman
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> Currently Mllib modeling tools work only with double data. However, data tables in practice often have a set of categorical fields (factors in R), that need to be converted to a set of 0/1 indicator variables (making the data actually used in a modeling algorithm completely numeric). In R, this is handled in modeling functions using the model.matrix function. Similar functionality needs to be available within Spark.



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