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This articles show you how to convert a Python dictionary list to a Spark DataFrame. The code snippets runs on Spark 2.x environments. Input The input data (dictionary list looks like the following): data = [{"Category": 'Category A', 'ItemID': 1, 'Amount': 12.40}, ...
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Apache Arrow is an in-memory columnar data format that can be used in Spark to efficiently transfer data between JVM and Python processes. This currently is most beneficial to Python users that work with Pandas/NumPy data. In this article, ...
Read and Write XML files in PySpark
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This article shows you how to read and write XML files in Spark. Sample XML file Create a sample XML file named test.xml with the following content: <?xml version="1.0"?> <data> <record id="1"> <rid>1</rid> <nam...
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This article shows how to convert a Python dictionary list to a DataFrame in Spark using Python. Example dictionary list data = [{"Category": 'Category A', "ID": 1, "Value": 12.40}, {"Category": 'Category B', "ID": 2, "Value": 30.10}, {"Category": 'Category C', "...
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Sometime it is necessary to pass environment variables to Spark executors. To pass environment variable to executors, use setExecutorEnv function of SparkConf class. Code snippet In the following code snippet, an environment variable name ENV_NAME is set up with value ...
Save DataFrame as CSV File in Spark
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Spark provides rich APIs to save data frames to many different formats of files such as CSV, Parquet, Orc, Avro, etc. CSV is commonly used in data application though nowadays binary formats are getting momentum. In this article, I am going to show you how to save Spark data frame as CSV file in b...
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When submitting Spark applications to YARN cluster, two deploy modes can be used: client and cluster. For client mode (default), Spark driver runs on the machine that the Spark application was submitted while for cluster mode, the driver runs on a random node in a cluster. On this page, I am goin...
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In Spark, it’s easy to convert Spark Dataframe to Pandas dataframe through one line of code: df_pd = df.toPandas() In this page, I am going to show you how to convert a list of PySpark row objects to a Pandas data frame. Prepare the data frame The fo...
Fix PySpark TypeError: field **: **Type can not accept object ** in type <class '*'>
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When creating Spark date frame using schemas, you may encounter errors about “field **: **Type can not accept object ** in type <class '*'>”. The actual error can vary, for instances, the following are some examples: field xxx: BooleanType can not accept object 100 in type ...
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In Spark, SparkContext.parallelize function can be used to convert Python list to RDD and then RDD can be converted to DataFrame object. The following sample code is based on Spark 2.x. In this page, I am going to show you how to convert the following list to a data frame: data = [(...
