RDD to LabeledPoint conversion

Question

If I have a RDD with about 500 columns and 200 million rows, and RDD.columns.indexOf("target", 0) shows Int = 77 which tells me my targeted dependent variable is at column number 77. But I don't have enough knowledge on how to select desired (partial) columns as features (say I want columns from 23 to 59, 111 to 357, 399 to 489). I am wondering if I can apply such:

val data = rdd.map(col => new LabeledPoint(
    col(77).toDouble, Vectors.dense(??.map(x => x.toDouble).toArray))

Any suggestions or guidance will be much appreciated.

Maybe I messed up RDD with DataFrame, I can convert the RDD to DataFrame with .toDF() or it is easier to accomplish the goal with DataFrame than RDD.

Answer 1

I assume your data looks more or less like this:

import scala.util.Random.{setSeed, nextDouble}
setSeed(1)

case class Record(
    foo: Double, target: Double, x1: Double, x2: Double, x3: Double)

val rows = sc.parallelize(
    (1 to 10).map(_ => Record(
        nextDouble, nextDouble, nextDouble, nextDouble, nextDouble
   ))
)
val df = sqlContext.createDataFrame(rows)
df.registerTempTable("df")

sqlContext.sql("""
  SELECT ROUND(foo, 2) foo,
         ROUND(target, 2) target,
         ROUND(x1, 2) x1,
         ROUND(x2, 2) x2,
         ROUND(x2, 2) x3 
  FROM df""").show

So we have data as below:

+----+------+----+----+----+
| foo|target|  x1|  x2|  x3|
+----+------+----+----+----+
|0.73|  0.41|0.21|0.33|0.33|
|0.01|  0.96|0.94|0.95|0.95|
| 0.4|  0.35|0.29|0.51|0.51|
|0.77|  0.66|0.16|0.38|0.38|
|0.69|  0.81|0.01|0.52|0.52|
|0.14|  0.48|0.54|0.58|0.58|
|0.62|  0.18|0.01|0.16|0.16|
|0.54|  0.97|0.25|0.39|0.39|
|0.43|  0.23|0.89|0.04|0.04|
|0.66|  0.12|0.65|0.98|0.98|
+----+------+----+----+----+

and we want to ignore foo and x2 and extract LabeledPoint(target, Array(x1, x3)):

// Map feature names to indices
val featInd = List("x1", "x3").map(df.columns.indexOf(_))

// Or if you want to exclude columns
val ignored = List("foo", "target", "x2")
val featInd = df.columns.diff(ignored).map(df.columns.indexOf(_))

// Get index of target
val targetInd = df.columns.indexOf("target") 

df.rdd.map(r => LabeledPoint(
   r.getDouble(targetInd), // Get target value
   // Map feature indices to values
   Vectors.dense(featInd.map(r.getDouble(_)).toArray) 
))