PySpark Tutorial

• PySpark is the Python API for Spark.
• The purpose of PySpark tutorial is to provide basic distributed algorithms using PySpark.
• PySpark has an interactive shell ($SPARK_HOME/bin/pyspark) for basic testing and debugging and is not supposed to be used for production environment.
• You may use $SPARK_HOME/bin/spark-submit command for running PySpark programs (may be used for testing and production environemtns)

PySpark Algorithms Book

Download, Install Spark and Run PySpark

Basics of PySpark

PySpark Examples and Tutorials

• DNA Base Counting
• Classic Word Count
• Find Frequency of Bigrams
• Join of Two Relations R(K, V₁), S(K, V₂)
• Basic Mapping of RDD Elements
• How to add all RDD elements together
• How to multiply all RDD elements together
• Find Top-N and Bottom-N
• Find average by using combineByKey()
• How to filter RDD elements
• How to find average
• Cartesian Product: rdd1.cartesian(rdd2)
• Sort By Key: sortByKey() ascending/descending
• How to Add Indices
• Map Partitions: mapPartitions() by Examples

How to Minimize the Verbosity of Spark

PySpark Tutorial and References...

• Getting started with PySpark - Part 1
• Getting started with PySpark - Part 2
• A really really fast introduction to PySpark
• PySpark
• Basic Big Data Manipulation with PySpark
• Working in Pyspark: Basics of Working with Data and RDDs

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