diff --git a/pipe/etl.py b/pipe/etl.py
index 069a020..a6499be 100644
--- a/pipe/etl.py
+++ b/pipe/etl.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def split_sets(data: DataFrame, split=[0.99, 0.005, 0.005]) -> tuple:
 def trim(dataframe, column):
 
     ndarray = np.array(dataframe.select(column).collect()) \
-            .reshape(-1, 34, 133)
+            .reshape(-1, 36, 133)
 
     return ndarray
 
diff --git a/pipe/extract.py b/pipe/extract.py
index d905972..7f0c4d3 100644
--- a/pipe/extract.py
+++ b/pipe/extract.py
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 import cv2 as cv
 import h5py
 import numpy as np
+from numpy import ndarray
+from pyspark.ml.linalg import Vectors
 from pyspark.sql import SparkSession, Row, DataFrame
 import scipy as sp
 
@@ -35,8 +37,10 @@ def extract(spark: SparkSession) -> DataFrame:
             labels.append(line.strip().split(",")[0])
 
     reader = FileReader(spark, filetype=FileType.MAT)
-
-    return reader.read_file(path, labels)
+    rdd = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(reader.read_file(path, labels),
+                                              numSlices=200)
+    #return reader.read_file(path, labels)
+    return spark.createDataFrame(rdd)
 
 def image_pipe(spark: SparkSession, imagepath: Path, namepattern: str,
                stacksize: int) -> np.ndarray:
@@ -58,6 +62,15 @@ def image_pipe(spark: SparkSession, imagepath: Path, namepattern: str,
 
     return images
 
+def strip_array(arr: ndarray) -> ndarray:
+    dtype = arr.dtype
+    while dtype == "object":
+        arr = arr[0]
+        dtype = arr.dtype
+    if len(arr) == 0:
+        return ["unknown"]
+    return arr
+
 class FileReader:
     """
     Class to read spectrograms and metadata from different file formats based
@@ -105,7 +118,7 @@ def metadata_read(self, metapath: Path, labels:list,
 
     def read_matfiles(self, specpath: Path,
                       datakinds: List[DataKind],
-                      default_size: tuple = (34, 130),
+                      default_size: tuple = (36, 130),
                       pad_value: float = 0.) -> DataFrame:
         """
         Loads data for each stack iteration from a set of mat files,
@@ -121,8 +134,7 @@ def read_matfiles(self, specpath: Path,
         Returns:
             DataFrame: Spark DataFrame containing the requested data.
         """
-        data = []
-        row = {}
+        #data = []
         labels = glob.glob(str(specpath/"matfiles"/"*.mat"))
         nloops = default_size[0]
         nfreq = default_size[1]
@@ -137,6 +149,8 @@ def read_matfiles(self, specpath: Path,
         ncnt_scale = 5.
 
         for label in labels:
+            row = {}
+            print(label)
             matdata = sp.io.loadmat(specpath/"matfiles"/label)
             ncnt = np.log10(matdata["NCNT"][0])
             if np.min(ncnt) < 2:
@@ -174,18 +188,20 @@ def read_matfiles(self, specpath: Path,
                     (matdata["NSD"][0] - nsd_meanshift)
                 timeseries_array[time_offset:, 132] = \
                     np.log10(matdata["NCNT"][0]) / ncnt_scale
-                row["timeseries"] = timeseries_array.tolist()
+                timeseries_array = Vectors.dense(timeseries_array.flatten())
+                row["timeseries"] = timeseries_array
 
                 if DataKind.TREATMENT in datakinds:
-                    row["treatment"] = matdata["header"]["drug"][0][0][0].lower()
+                    row["treatment"] = strip_array(
+                            matdata["header"]["drug"])[0].lower()
                 if DataKind.TARGET in datakinds:
-                    try:
-                        row["target"] = matdata["header"]["cell"][0][0][0].lower()
-                    except:
-                        row["target"] = "unknown"
-                data.append(Row(**row))
+                    row["target"] = strip_array(
+                            matdata["header"]["cell"])[0].lower()
+                    row["target"] = "unknown"
+                #data.append(Row(**row))
+                yield row
         
-        return self.spark.createDataFrame(data)
+        #return self.spark.createDataFrame(data)
 
     def read_hdf5(self, specpath: Path, labels: list,
                   namepattern:str="averaged_spectrogram{}.hdf5") \
diff --git a/pipe/transform.py b/pipe/transform.py
index 0c4637e..80abcd9 100644
--- a/pipe/transform.py
+++ b/pipe/transform.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 from pyspark.sql import DataFrame, functions, SparkSession, types
 from pyspark.ml import Pipeline
-from pyspark.ml.feature import StringIndexer, OneHotEncoder
+from pyspark.ml.feature import StringIndexer, OneHotEncoder, VectorAssembler
 
 def merge_redundant_treatment_labels(dataframe: DataFrame) -> DataFrame:
     """
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ def onehot(dataframe: DataFrame, keys: list) -> DataFrame:
         pyspark.sql.DataFrame: New DataFrame with one-hot encoded column(s).
     """
 
+    """ OLD BLOCK
     indexers = []
     encoders = []
     indexed_cols = []
@@ -79,6 +80,32 @@ def onehot(dataframe: DataFrame, keys: list) -> DataFrame:
     for column_name in keys:
         result = result.withColumnRenamed(column_name, f"{column_name}_str")
         result = result.withColumnRenamed(f"{column_name}_encoded", column_name)
+    """
+
+    indexer = StringIndexer(
+            inputCols=keys,
+            outputCols=[f"{c}_idx" for c in keys],
+            handleInvalid="keep"
+    )
+
+    encoder = OneHotEncoder(
+            inputCols=[f"{c}_idx" for c in keys],
+            outputCols=[f"{c}_vec" for c in keys],
+            dropLast=False
+    )
+
+    assembler = VectorAssembler(
+            inputCols=[f"{c}_vec" for c in keys],
+            outputCol="features"
+    )
+    pipeline = Pipeline(stages=[indexer, encoder, assembler])
+    model = pipeline.fit(dataframe)
+    result = model.transform(dataframe)
+
+    for c in keys:
+        result = result.withColumnRenamed(c, f"{c}_str") \
+                       .withColumnRenamed(f"{c}_vec", c)
+                        
 
     return result