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Learning PySpark

By : Tomasz Drabas, Denny Lee
Book Image

Learning PySpark

By: Tomasz Drabas, Denny Lee

Overview of this book

Apache Spark is an open source framework for efficient cluster computing with a strong interface for data parallelism and fault tolerance. This book will show you how to leverage the power of Python and put it to use in the Spark ecosystem. You will start by getting a firm understanding of the Spark 2.0 architecture and how to set up a Python environment for Spark. You will get familiar with the modules available in PySpark. You will learn how to abstract data with RDDs and DataFrames and understand the streaming capabilities of PySpark. Also, you will get a thorough overview of machine learning capabilities of PySpark using ML and MLlib, graph processing using GraphFrames, and polyglot persistence using Blaze. Finally, you will learn how to deploy your applications to the cloud using the spark-submit command. By the end of this book, you will have established a firm understanding of the Spark Python API and how it can be used to build data-intensive applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning PySpark
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Loading and transforming the data


Even though MLlib is designed with RDDs and DStreams in focus, for ease of transforming the data we will read the data and convert it to a DataFrame.

Note

The DStreams are the basic data abstraction for Spark Streaming (see http://bit.ly/2jIDT2A)

Just like in the previous chapter, we first specify the schema of our dataset.

Note

Note that here (for brevity), we only present a handful of features. You should always check our GitHub account for this book for the latest version of the code: https://github.com/drabastomek/learningPySpark.

Here's the code:

import pyspark.sql.types as typ
labels = [
    ('INFANT_ALIVE_AT_REPORT', typ.StringType()),
    ('BIRTH_YEAR', typ.IntegerType()),
    ('BIRTH_MONTH', typ.IntegerType()),
    ('BIRTH_PLACE', typ.StringType()),
    ('MOTHER_AGE_YEARS', typ.IntegerType()),
    ('MOTHER_RACE_6CODE', typ.StringType()),
    ('MOTHER_EDUCATION', typ.StringType()),
    ('FATHER_COMBINED_AGE', typ.IntegerType()),
    ('FATHER_EDUCATION'...