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Featran, also known as Featran77 or F77 (get it?), is a Scala library for feature transformation. It aims to simplify the time consuming task of feature engineering in data science and machine learning processes. It supports various collection types for feature extraction and output formats for feature representation.

Introduction

Most feature transformation logic requires two steps, one global aggregation to summarize data followed by one element-wise mapping to transform them. For example:

We can implement this in a naive way using reduce and map.

case class Point(score: Double, label: String)
val data = Seq(Point(1.0, "a"), Point(2.0, "b"), Point(3.0, "c"))

val a = data
  .map(p => (p.score, p.score, Set(p.label)))
  .reduce((x, y) => (math.min(x._1, y._1), math.max(x._2, y._2), x._3 ++ y._3))

val features = data.map { p =>
  (p.score - a._1) / (a._2 - a._1) :: a._3.toList.sorted.map(s => if (s == p.label) 1.0 else 0.0)
}

But this is unmanageable for complex feature sets. The above logic can be easily expressed in Featran.

import com.spotify.featran._
import com.spotify.featran.transformers._

val fs = FeatureSpec.of[Point]
  .required(_.score)(MinMaxScaler("min-max"))
  .required(_.label)(OneHotEncoder("one-hot"))

val fe = fs.extract(data)
val names = fe.featureNames
val features = fe.featureValues[Seq[Double]]

Featran also supports these additional features.

See Examples (source) for detailed examples. See transformers package for a complete list of available feature transformers.

See ScalaDocs for current API documentation.

Presentations

Artifacts

Feature includes the following artifacts:

License

Copyright 2016-2017 Spotify AB.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0