I am trying to run random forest classification by using Spark ML api but I am having issues with creating right data frame input into pipeline.
Here is sample data:
age,hours_per_week,education,sex,salaryRange
38,40,"hs-grad","male","A"
28,40,"bachelors","female","A"
52,45,"hs-grad","male","B"
31,50,"masters","female","B"
42,40,"bachelors","male","B"
age and hours_per_week are integers while other features including label salaryRange are categorical (String)
Loading this csv file (lets call it sample.csv) can be done by Spark csv library like this:
val data = sqlContext.csvFile("/home/dusan/sample.csv")
By default all columns are imported as string so we need to change "age" and "hours_per_week" to Int:
val toInt = udf[Int, String]( _.toInt)
val dataFixed = data.withColumn("age", toInt(data("age"))).withColumn("hours_per_week",toInt(data("hours_per_week")))
Just to check how schema looks now:
scala> dataFixed.printSchema
root
|-- age: integer (nullable = true)
|-- hours_per_week: integer (nullable = true)
|-- education: string (nullable = true)
|-- sex: string (nullable = true)
|-- salaryRange: string (nullable = true)
Then lets set the cross validator and pipeline:
val rf = new RandomForestClassifier()
val pipeline = new Pipeline().setStages(Array(rf))
val cv = new CrossValidator().setNumFolds(10).setEstimator(pipeline).setEvaluator(new BinaryClassificationEvaluator)
Error shows up when running this line:
val cmModel = cv.fit(dataFixed)
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Field "features" does not exist.
It is possible to set label column and feature column in RandomForestClassifier ,however I have 4 columns as predictors (features) not only one.
How I should organize my data frame so it has label and features columns organized correctly?
For your convenience here is full code :
import org.apache.spark.SparkConf
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
import org.apache.spark.ml.classification.RandomForestClassifier
import org.apache.spark.ml.evaluation.BinaryClassificationEvaluator
import org.apache.spark.ml.tuning.CrossValidator
import org.apache.spark.ml.Pipeline
import org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.{Vector, Vectors}
object SampleClassification {
def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
//set spark context
val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("Simple Application").setMaster("local");
val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
val sqlContext = new org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext(sc)
import sqlContext.implicits._
import com.databricks.spark.csv._
//load data by using databricks "Spark CSV Library"
val data = sqlContext.csvFile("/home/dusan/sample.csv")
//by default all columns are imported as string so we need to change "age" and "hours_per_week" to Int
val toInt = udf[Int, String]( _.toInt)
val dataFixed = data.withColumn("age", toInt(data("age"))).withColumn("hours_per_week",toInt(data("hours_per_week")))
val rf = new RandomForestClassifier()
val pipeline = new Pipeline().setStages(Array(rf))
val cv = new CrossValidator().setNumFolds(10).setEstimator(pipeline).setEvaluator(new BinaryClassificationEvaluator)
// this fails with error
//java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Field "features" does not exist.
val cmModel = cv.fit(dataFixed)
}
}
Thanks for help!
