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Nabat Farsi
Nabat Farsi

Reputation: 992

ValueError: Input array dimensions not right for CountVectorizer()

When using make_column_transformer() in sklearn pipeline, I encountered an error when trying to use CountVectorizer.

My DataFrame has two columns, 'desc-title' and 'SPchangeHigh'. Here's a snippet of two rows:

features = pd.DataFrame([["T. Rowe Price sells most of its Tesla shares", .002152],
                         ["Gannett to retain all seats in MNG proxy fight", 0.002152]],
                        columns=["desc-title", "SPchangeHigh"])

I am able to run the following pipeline with no issue:

preprocess = make_column_transformer(
    (StandardScaler(),['SPchangeHigh']),
    ( OneHotEncoder(),['desc-title'])
)
preprocess.fit_transform(features.head(2))

however when I replace OneHotEncoder() with CountVectorizer(tokenizer=tokenize), it fails:

preprocess = make_column_transformer(
    (StandardScaler(),['SPchangeHigh']),
    ( CountVectorizer(tokenizer=tokenize),['desc-title'])
)
preprocess.fit_transform(features.head(2))

and the error that I get is this:

ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-71-d77f136b9586> in <module>()
      3     ( CountVectorizer(tokenizer=tokenize),['desc-title'])
      4 )
----> 5 preprocess.fit_transform(features.head(2))

C:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sklearn\compose\_column_transformer.py in fit_transform(self, X, y)
    488         self._validate_output(Xs)
    489 
--> 490         return self._hstack(list(Xs))
    491 
    492     def transform(self, X):

C:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sklearn\compose\_column_transformer.py in _hstack(self, Xs)
    545         else:
    546             Xs = [f.toarray() if sparse.issparse(f) else f for f in Xs]
--> 547             return np.hstack(Xs)
    548 
    549 

C:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\shape_base.py in hstack(tup)
    338         return _nx.concatenate(arrs, 0)
    339     else:
--> 340         return _nx.concatenate(arrs, 1)
    341 
    342 

ValueError: all the input array dimensions except for the concatenation axis must match exactly

I appreciate if anyone can help me.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1036

Answers (1)

Dave Liu
Dave Liu

Reputation: 1142

Remove the brackets around 'desc-title'. You want a one-dimensional array, not a column vector.

preprocess = make_column_transformer(
    (StandardScaler(),['SPchangeHigh']),
    ( CountVectorizer(),'desc-title')
)
preprocess.fit_transform(features.head(2))

Sklearn documentation describes this nuanced specification:

The difference between specifying the column selector as 'column' (as a simple string) and ['column'] (as a list with one element) is the shape of the array that is passed to the transformer. In the first case, a one dimensional array will be passed, while in the second case it will be a 2-dimensional array with one column, i.e. a column vector

...

Be aware that some transformers expect a 1-dimensional input (the label-oriented ones) while some others, like OneHotEncoder or Imputer, expect 2-dimensional input, with the shape [n_samples, n_features].

Upvotes: 8

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