PySpark: Many features to Labeled Point RDD

Question

New to Spark, and all examples I have read deal with small sets of data such as:

RDD = sc.parallelize([
LabeledPoint(1, [1.0, 2.0, 3.0]),
LabeledPoint(2, [3.0, 4.0, 5.0]),

However, I have a large dataset with 50+ features.

Example of a row

u'2596,51,3,258,0,510,221,232,148,6279,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5'

I want to quick create a Labeledpoint RDD in PySpark. I attempt to index the last position as my first data point in the Labeledpoint RDD, and then index the first n-1 positions as a dense vector. However I get the following error. Any guidance is appreciated! Note: if I change [] to () when creating the labeled point, I get the error "Invalid Syntax".

    df = myDataRDD.map(lambda line: line.split(','))
data = [
     LabeledPoint(df[54], df[0:53])
]
TypeError: 'PipelinedRDD' object does not support indexing
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-67-fa1b56e8441e> in <module>()
      2 df = myDataRDD.map(lambda line: line.split(','))
      3 data = [
----> 4      LabeledPoint(df[54], df[0:53])
      5 ]

TypeError: 'PipelinedRDD' object does not support indexing

Answer 1

As the error you get states you can not access an RDD by indices. You need a second map statement to transform your sequences into LabeledPoints

rows = [u'2596,51,3,258,0,510,221,232,148,6279,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5', u'2596,51,3,258,0,510,221,232,148,6279,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5']

rows_rdd = sc.parallelize(rows) # create RDD with given rows

labeled_points_rdd = rows_rdd\
                     .map(lambda row: row.split(','))\                  # split rows into sequences
                     .map(lambda seq: LabeledPoint(seq[-1],seq[:-2]))   # create Labeled Points from these sequences with last Item as label

print labeled_points_rdd.take(2)
# prints [LabeledPoint(5.0, [2596.0,51.0,3.0,258.0,0.0,510.0,221.0,...]),
#         LabeledPoint(5.0,[2596.0,51.0,3.0,258.0,0.0,510.0,221.0,...])

Note that the negative indices in python let you access sequences backwards.

With .take(n) you then an get the first n elements from your RDD.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

You cannot use indexing, instead you have to use the methods available in the Spark API. So:

data = [ LabeledPoint(myDataRDD.take(RDD.count()), #Last element
                      myDataRDD.top(RDD.count()-1)) #All but last ]

(Untested, nevertheless, this is the general idea)