PySpark Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach with PySpark2

Quickly find solutions to common programming problems encountered while processing big data. Content is presented in the popular problem-solution format. Look up the programming problem that you want to solve. Read the solution. Apply the solution directly in your own code. Problem solved!

PySpark Recipes covers Hadoop and its shortcomings. The architecture of Spark, PySpark, and RDD are presented. You will learn to apply RDD to solve day-to-day big data problems. Python and NumPy are included and make it easy for new learners of PySpark to understand and adopt the model.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the advanced features of PySpark2 and SparkSQL
• Optimize your code
• Program SparkSQL with Python
• Use Spark Streaming and Spark MLlib with Python
• Perform graph analysis with GraphFrames

Who This Book Is For 

Data analysts, Python programmers, big data enthusiasts

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Era of Big Data, Hadoop, and Other Big Data Processing Frameworks
Chapter 2: Installation
Chapter 3: Introduction to Python and NumPy
Chapter 4: Spark Architecture and the Resilient Distributed Dataset
Chapter 5: The Power of Pairs: Paired RDDs
Chapter 6: I/O in PySpark
Chapter 7: Optimizing PySpark and PySpark Streaming
Chapter 8: PySparkSQL
Chapter 9: PySpark MLlib and Linear Regression