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pyspark to_date fail to infer format

August 23, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a column of type string where the values are of the form ‘Jun 2019’; ‘Sep 2020’; etc.
I am trying to extract the year out of it, but it seems like to_date function fail to convert the data to datetime format

Categories Python, Q&A Tags pyspark, python Leave a comment

Read and group json files by date element using pyspark

August 22, 2022 by Magenaut

I have multiple JSON files (10 TB ~) on a S3 bucket, and I need to organize these files by a date element present in every json document.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags airflow, apache-spark, databricks, pyspark, python Leave a comment

Convert pyspark string to date format

August 21, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a date pyspark dataframe with a string column in the format of MM-dd-yyyy and I am attempting to convert this into a date column.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags apache-spark, apache-spark-sql, pyspark, python Leave a comment

How to split Vector into columns – using PySpark

August 21, 2022 by Magenaut

Context: I have a DataFrame with 2 columns: word and vector. Where the column type of “vector” is VectorUDT.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags apache-spark, apache-spark-ml, apache-spark-sql, pyspark, python Leave a comment

How to add a constant column in a Spark DataFrame?

August 20, 2022 by Magenaut

I want to add a column in a DataFrame with some arbitrary value (that is the same for each row). I get an error when I use withColumn as follows:

Categories Python, Q&A Tags apache-spark, apache-spark-sql, dataframe, pyspark, python Leave a comment

How to find median and quantiles using Spark

August 20, 2022 by Magenaut

How can I find median of an RDD of integers using a distributed method, IPython, and Spark? The RDD is approximately 700,000 elements and therefore too large to collect and find the median.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags apache-spark, median, pyspark, python, rdd Leave a comment

How to use JDBC source to write and read data in (Py)Spark?

August 20, 2022 by Magenaut

The goal of this question is to document:

Categories Python, Q&A Tags apache-spark, apache-spark-sql, pyspark, python, scala Leave a comment

Calling Java/Scala function from a task

August 20, 2022 by Magenaut

Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transforamtion. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags apache-spark, apache-spark-mllib, pyspark, python, scala Leave a comment

Load CSV file with Spark

August 19, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m new to Spark and I’m trying to read CSV data from a file with Spark.
Here’s what I am doing :

Categories Python, Q&A Tags apache-spark, apache-spark-sql, csv, pyspark, python Leave a comment

How to link PyCharm with PySpark?

August 18, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m new with apache spark and apparently I installed apache-spark with homebrew in my macbook:

Categories Python, Q&A Tags apache-spark, homebrew, pycharm, pyspark, python Leave a comment
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