I am a beginner in mahout with not much background in math. I want to know what is encoder and vectorizer in mahout.
As far I know vector can be thought of as an array or tuple containing values for a specific attribute of the object which vector represents. I have testcell data for mechanical component testing. I create a CSV file with various details gathered from test cell database. I want to run logistic regression on this data and predict the components life based on test cell data. I want to understand what is vectorization and encoding in this context. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Anand.C
