GBTClassifier.py

from pyspark.ml import Pipeline
from pyspark.ml.classification import GBTClassifier
from pyspark.ml.feature import StringIndexer, VectorIndexer
from pyspark.ml.evaluation import MulticlassClassificationEvaluator

# Load and parse the data file, converting it to a DataFrame.
data = spark.read.format("libsvm").load("/Users/arrowlittle/Desktop/data/news_libsvm.txt")

# Index labels, adding metadata to the label column.
# Fit on whole dataset to include all labels in index.
labelIndexer = StringIndexer(inputCol="label", outputCol="indexedLabel").fit(data)
# Automatically identify categorical features, and index them.
# Set maxCategories so features with > 32 distinct values are treated as continuous.
featureIndexer =\
    VectorIndexer(inputCol="features", outputCol="indexedFeatures", maxCategories=4).fit(data)

# Split the data into training and test sets (30% held out for testing)
(trainingData, testData) = data.randomSplit([0.7, 0.3])

# Train a GBT model.
gbt = GBTClassifier(labelCol="indexedLabel", featuresCol="indexedFeatures", maxIter=10)

# Chain indexers and GBT in a Pipeline
pipeline = Pipeline(stages=[labelIndexer, featureIndexer, gbt])

# Train model.  This also runs the indexers.
model = pipeline.fit(trainingData)

# Make predictions.
predictions = model.transform(testData)

# Select example rows to display.
predictions.select("prediction", "indexedLabel", "features").show(5)

# Select (prediction, true label) and compute test error
evaluator = MulticlassClassificationEvaluator(
    labelCol="indexedLabel", predictionCol="prediction", metricName="accuracy")
accuracy = evaluator.evaluate(predictions)
print("Test Error = %g" % (1.0 - accuracy))

gbtModel = model.stages[2]
print(gbtModel)  # summary only