# Binarizer

Binarization is the process of thresholding numerical features to binary (0/1) features.

Binarizer takes the common parameters inputCol and outputCol, as well as the threshold for binarization. Feature values greater than the threshold are binarized to 1.0; values equal to or less than the threshold are binarized to 0.0. Both Vector and Double types are supported for inputCol.

```
import org.apache.spark.ml.feature.Binarizer

val data = Array((0, 0.1), (1, 0.8), (2, 0.2))
val dataFrame = spark.createDataFrame(data).toDF("id", "feature")

val binarizer: Binarizer = new Binarizer()
  .setInputCol("feature")
  .setOutputCol("binarized_feature")
  .setThreshold(0.5)

val binarizedDataFrame = binarizer.transform(dataFrame)

println(s"Binarizer output with Threshold = ${binarizer.getThreshold}")
binarizedDataFrame.show()

/*
Binarizer output with Threshold = 0.5
+---+-------+-----------------+
| id|feature|binarized_feature|
+---+-------+-----------------+
|  0|    0.1|              0.0|
|  1|    0.8|              1.0|
|  2|    0.2|              0.0|
+---+-------+-----------------+

*/

```


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