Using PySpark Imputer on grouped data - pyspark

Question

I have a Class column which can be 1, 2 or 3, and another column Age with some missing data. I want to Impute the average Age of each Class group.
I want to do something along:
grouped_data = df.groupBy('Class')
imputer = Imputer(inputCols=['Age'], outputCols=['imputed_Age'])
imputer.fit(grouped_data)
Is there any workaround to that?
Thanks for your time

Answer 1

Using Imputer, you can filter down the dataset to each Class value, impute the mean, and then join them back, since you know ahead of time what the values can be:
subsets = []
for i in range(1, 4):
imputer = Imputer(inputCols=['Age'], outputCols=['imputed_Age'])
subset_df = df.filter(col('Class') == i)
imputed_subset = imputer.fit(subset_df).transform(subset_df)
subsets.append(imputed_subset)
# Union them together
# If you only have 3 just do it without a loop
imputed_df = subsets[0].unionByName(subsets[1]).unionByName(subsets[2])
If you don't know ahead of time what the values are, or if they're not easily iterable, you can groupBy, get the average values for each group as a DataFrame, and then coalesce join that back onto your original dataframe.
import pyspark.sql.functions as F
averages = df.groupBy("Class").agg(F.avg("Age").alias("avgAge"))
df_with_avgs = df.join(averages, on="Class")
imputed_df = df_with_avgs.withColumn("imputedAge", F.coalesce("Age", "avgAge"))

Answer 2

You need to transform your dataframe with fitted model. Then take average of filled data:
from pyspark.sql import functions as F
imputer = Imputer(inputCols=['Age'], outputCols=['imputed_Age'])
imp_model = imputer.fit(df)
transformed_df = imp_model.transform(df)
transformed_df \
.groupBy('Class') \
.agg(F.avg('Age'))