mengxr This adds the `BlockMatrix` to PySpark. I have the conversions to `IndexedRowMatrix` and `CoordinateMatrix` ready as well, so once PR #7554 is completed (which relies on PR #7746), this PR can be finished.
Author: Mike Dusenberry <mwdusenb@us.ibm.com>
Closes#7761 from dusenberrymw/SPARK-6486_Add_BlockMatrix_to_PySpark and squashes the following commits:
27195c2 [Mike Dusenberry] Adding one more check to _convert_to_matrix_block_tuple, and a few minor documentation changes.
ae50883 [Mike Dusenberry] Minor update: BlockMatrix should inherit from DistributedMatrix.
b8acc1c [Mike Dusenberry] Moving BlockMatrix to pyspark.mllib.linalg.distributed, updating the logic to match that of the other distributed matrices, adding conversions, and adding documentation.
c014002 [Mike Dusenberry] Using properties for better documentation.
3bda6ab [Mike Dusenberry] Adding documentation.
8fb3095 [Mike Dusenberry] Small cleanup.
e17af2e [Mike Dusenberry] Adding BlockMatrix to PySpark.
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