diff --git a/python/docs/pyspark.ml.rst b/python/docs/pyspark.ml.rst
index 4da6d4a74a299..220ea595df903 100644
--- a/python/docs/pyspark.ml.rst
+++ b/python/docs/pyspark.ml.rst
@@ -24,3 +24,19 @@ pyspark.ml.classification module
     :members:
     :undoc-members:
     :inherited-members:
+
+pyspark.ml.tuning module
+--------------------------------
+
+.. automodule:: pyspark.ml.tuning
+    :members:
+    :undoc-members:
+    :inherited-members:
+
+pyspark.ml.evaluation module
+--------------------------------
+
+.. automodule:: pyspark.ml.evaluation
+    :members:
+    :undoc-members:
+    :inherited-members:
diff --git a/python/pyspark/ml/evaluation.py b/python/pyspark/ml/evaluation.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..02020ebff94c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/pyspark/ml/evaluation.py
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+from pyspark.ml.wrapper import JavaEvaluator
+from pyspark.ml.param import Param, Params
+from pyspark.ml.param.shared import HasLabelCol, HasRawPredictionCol
+from pyspark.ml.util import keyword_only
+from pyspark.mllib.common import inherit_doc
+
+__all__ = ['BinaryClassificationEvaluator']
+
+
+@inherit_doc
+class BinaryClassificationEvaluator(JavaEvaluator, HasLabelCol, HasRawPredictionCol):
+    """
+    Evaluator for binary classification, which expects two input
+    columns: rawPrediction and label.
+
+    >>> from pyspark.mllib.linalg import Vectors
+    >>> scoreAndLabels = map(lambda x: (Vectors.dense([1.0 - x[0], x[0]]), x[1]),
+    ...    [(0.1, 0.0), (0.1, 1.0), (0.4, 0.0), (0.6, 0.0), (0.6, 1.0), (0.6, 1.0), (0.8, 1.0)])
+    >>> dataset = sqlContext.createDataFrame(scoreAndLabels, ["raw", "label"])
+    ...
+    >>> evaluator = BinaryClassificationEvaluator(rawPredictionCol="raw")
+    >>> evaluator.evaluate(dataset)
+    0.70...
+    >>> evaluator.evaluate(dataset, {evaluator.metricName: "areaUnderPR"})
+    0.83...
+    """
+
+    _java_class = "org.apache.spark.ml.evaluation.BinaryClassificationEvaluator"
+
+    # a placeholder to make it appear in the generated doc
+    metricName = Param(Params._dummy(), "metricName",
+                       "metric name in evaluation (areaUnderROC|areaUnderPR)")
+
+    @keyword_only
+    def __init__(self, rawPredictionCol="rawPrediction", labelCol="label",
+                 metricName="areaUnderROC"):
+        """
+        __init__(self, rawPredictionCol="rawPrediction", labelCol="label", \
+                 metricName="areaUnderROC")
+        """
+        super(BinaryClassificationEvaluator, self).__init__()
+        #: param for metric name in evaluation (areaUnderROC|areaUnderPR)
+        self.metricName = Param(self, "metricName",
+                                "metric name in evaluation (areaUnderROC|areaUnderPR)")
+        self._setDefault(rawPredictionCol="rawPrediction", labelCol="label",
+                         metricName="areaUnderROC")
+        kwargs = self.__init__._input_kwargs
+        self._set(**kwargs)
+
+    def setMetricName(self, value):
+        """
+        Sets the value of :py:attr:`metricName`.
+        """
+        self.paramMap[self.metricName] = value
+        return self
+
+    def getMetricName(self):
+        """
+        Gets the value of metricName or its default value.
+        """
+        return self.getOrDefault(self.metricName)
+
+    @keyword_only
+    def setParams(self, rawPredictionCol="rawPrediction", labelCol="label",
+                  metricName="areaUnderROC"):
+        """
+        setParams(self, rawPredictionCol="rawPrediction", labelCol="label", \
+                  metricName="areaUnderROC")
+        Sets params for binary classification evaluator.
+        """
+        kwargs = self.setParams._input_kwargs
+        return self._set(**kwargs)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import doctest
+    from pyspark.context import SparkContext
+    from pyspark.sql import SQLContext
+    globs = globals().copy()
+    # The small batch size here ensures that we see multiple batches,
+    # even in these small test examples:
+    sc = SparkContext("local[2]", "ml.evaluation tests")
+    sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)
+    globs['sc'] = sc
+    globs['sqlContext'] = sqlContext
+    (failure_count, test_count) = doctest.testmod(
+        globs=globs, optionflags=doctest.ELLIPSIS)
+    sc.stop()
+    if failure_count:
+        exit(-1)
diff --git a/python/pyspark/ml/param/_shared_params_code_gen.py b/python/pyspark/ml/param/_shared_params_code_gen.py
index 6a3192465d66d..c71c823db2c81 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/ml/param/_shared_params_code_gen.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/ml/param/_shared_params_code_gen.py
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ def get$Name(self):
         ("featuresCol", "features column name", "'features'"),
         ("labelCol", "label column name", "'label'"),
         ("predictionCol", "prediction column name", "'prediction'"),
+        ("rawPredictionCol", "raw prediction column name", "'rawPrediction'"),
         ("inputCol", "input column name", None),
         ("outputCol", "output column name", None),
         ("numFeatures", "number of features", None)]
diff --git a/python/pyspark/ml/param/shared.py b/python/pyspark/ml/param/shared.py
index 13b6749998ad0..4f243844f8caa 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/ml/param/shared.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/ml/param/shared.py
@@ -165,6 +165,35 @@ def getPredictionCol(self):
         return self.getOrDefault(self.predictionCol)
 
 
+class HasRawPredictionCol(Params):
+    """
+    Mixin for param rawPredictionCol: raw prediction column name.
+    """
+
+    # a placeholder to make it appear in the generated doc
+    rawPredictionCol = Param(Params._dummy(), "rawPredictionCol", "raw prediction column name")
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(HasRawPredictionCol, self).__init__()
+        #: param for raw prediction column name
+        self.rawPredictionCol = Param(self, "rawPredictionCol", "raw prediction column name")
+        if 'rawPrediction' is not None:
+            self._setDefault(rawPredictionCol='rawPrediction')
+
+    def setRawPredictionCol(self, value):
+        """
+        Sets the value of :py:attr:`rawPredictionCol`.
+        """
+        self.paramMap[self.rawPredictionCol] = value
+        return self
+
+    def getRawPredictionCol(self):
+        """
+        Gets the value of rawPredictionCol or its default value.
+        """
+        return self.getOrDefault(self.rawPredictionCol)
+
+
 class HasInputCol(Params):
     """
     Mixin for param inputCol: input column name.
diff --git a/python/pyspark/ml/pipeline.py b/python/pyspark/ml/pipeline.py
index 7c1ec3026da6f..7b875e4b71254 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/ml/pipeline.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/ml/pipeline.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 from pyspark.mllib.common import inherit_doc
 
 
-__all__ = ['Estimator', 'Transformer', 'Pipeline', 'PipelineModel']
+__all__ = ['Estimator', 'Transformer', 'Pipeline', 'PipelineModel', 'Evaluator']
 
 
 @inherit_doc
@@ -168,3 +168,24 @@ def transform(self, dataset, params={}):
         for t in self.transformers:
             dataset = t.transform(dataset, paramMap)
         return dataset
+
+
+class Evaluator(object):
+    """
+    Base class for evaluators that compute metrics from predictions.
+    """
+
+    __metaclass__ = ABCMeta
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def evaluate(self, dataset, params={}):
+        """
+        Evaluates the output.
+
+        :param dataset: a dataset that contains labels/observations and
+                        predictions
+        :param params: an optional param map that overrides embedded
+                       params
+        :return: metric
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError()
diff --git a/python/pyspark/ml/wrapper.py b/python/pyspark/ml/wrapper.py
index 394f23c5e9b12..73741c4b40dfb 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/ml/wrapper.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/ml/wrapper.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 from pyspark import SparkContext
 from pyspark.sql import DataFrame
 from pyspark.ml.param import Params
-from pyspark.ml.pipeline import Estimator, Transformer
+from pyspark.ml.pipeline import Estimator, Transformer, Evaluator
 from pyspark.mllib.common import inherit_doc
 
 
@@ -147,3 +147,18 @@ def __init__(self, java_model):
 
     def _java_obj(self):
         return self._java_model
+
+
+@inherit_doc
+class JavaEvaluator(Evaluator, JavaWrapper):
+    """
+    Base class for :py:class:`Evaluator`s that wrap Java/Scala
+    implementations.
+    """
+
+    __metaclass__ = ABCMeta
+
+    def evaluate(self, dataset, params={}):
+        java_obj = self._java_obj()
+        self._transfer_params_to_java(params, java_obj)
+        return java_obj.evaluate(dataset._jdf, self._empty_java_param_map())
diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/_types.py b/python/pyspark/sql/_types.py
index 95fb91ad43457..fd98e116d2cf1 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/_types.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/_types.py
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ def _python_to_sql_converter(dataType):
 
     if isinstance(dataType, StructType):
         names, types = zip(*[(f.name, f.dataType) for f in dataType.fields])
-        converters = map(_python_to_sql_converter, types)
+        converters = [_python_to_sql_converter(t) for t in types]
 
         def converter(obj):
             if isinstance(obj, dict):
diff --git a/python/run-tests b/python/run-tests
index 0e0eee3564e7c..f9ca26467f17e 100755
--- a/python/run-tests
+++ b/python/run-tests
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ function run_ml_tests() {
     run_test "pyspark/ml/classification.py"
     run_test "pyspark/ml/tuning.py"
     run_test "pyspark/ml/tests.py"
+    run_test "pyspark/ml/evaluation.py"
 }
 
 function run_streaming_tests() {