There are plans...but not concrete ones yet: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8515 I agree categorical data handling is a pain point and that we need to improve it!
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Danil Kirsanov <danil.kirsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > NominalAttribute in MLib is used to represent categorical data internally. > It is barely documented though and has a number of limitations: for > example, > it supports only integer and string data. > Is there any current effort to expose it (and categorical data handling in > general) to the users, or is it intended to be an internal MLib data > representation only? > > Thank you, > Danil > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://apache-spark- > developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Nominal-Attribute-tp18935.html > Sent from the Apache Spark Developers List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > >
