Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Learning PySpark

You're reading from   Learning PySpark Build data-intensive applications locally and deploy at scale using the combined powers of Python and Spark 2.0

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463708
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Authors (2):
Arrow left icon
Denny Lee Denny Lee
Author Profile Icon Denny Lee
Denny Lee
Tomasz Drabas Tomasz Drabas
Author Profile Icon Tomasz Drabas
Tomasz Drabas
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding Spark 2. Resilient Distributed Datasets FREE CHAPTER 3. DataFrames 4. Prepare Data for Modeling 5. Introducing MLlib 6. Introducing the ML Package 7. GraphFrames 8. TensorFrames 9. Polyglot Persistence with Blaze 10. Structured Streaming 11. Packaging Spark Applications Index

Transformations

Transformations shape your dataset. These include mapping, filtering, joining, and transcoding the values in your dataset. In this section, we will showcase some of the transformations available on RDDs.

Note

Due to space constraints we include only the most often used transformations and actions here. For a full set of methods available we suggest you check PySpark's documentation on RDDs http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/pyspark.html#pyspark.RDD.

Since RDDs are schema-less, in this section we assume you know the schema of the produced dataset. If you cannot remember the positions of information in the parsed dataset we suggest you refer to the definition of the extractInformation(...) method on GitHub, code for Chapter 03.

The .map(...) transformation

It can be argued that you will use the .map(...) transformation most often. The method is applied to each element of the RDD: In the case of the data_from_file_conv dataset, you can think of this as a transformation...

You have been reading a chapter from
Learning PySpark
Published in: Feb 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781786463708
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image