Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/861#discussion_r37528781 --- Diff: flink-staging/flink-ml/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/ml/MLUtils.scala --- @@ -119,4 +123,65 @@ object MLUtils { stringRepresentation.writeAsText(filePath) } + + /** Create a [[ContinuousHistogram]] from the input data + * + * @param bins Number of bins required + * @param data input [[DataSet]] of [[Double]] + * @return [[ContinuousHistogram]] over the data + */ + def createContinuousHistogram(data: DataSet[Double], bins: Int): DataSet[ContinuousHistogram] = { + val min = data.reduce((x, y) => Math.min(x, y)) + val max = data.reduce((x, y) => Math.max(x, y)) + + val stats = min.mapWithBcVariable(max) { + (minimum, maximum) => (minimum - 2 * (maximum - minimum), maximum + 2 * (maximum - minimum)) + } + + data.mapPartition(new RichMapPartitionFunction[Double, ContinuousHistogram] { --- End diff -- We could write this a little bit more scalaesque if we introduce a `mapPartitionWithBcVariable` function.
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