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Apache Spark Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Apache Spark Quick Start Guide Quickly learn the art of writing efficient big data applications with Apache Spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789349108
Length 154 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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A sample application

To better understand the life cycle of the Spark application, let's create a sample application and understand the execution step by step. The following example shows the content of the data file that we will use in our application. The sale.csv file stores information,such as PRODUCT_CODE, COUNTRY_CODE, and the order AMOUNT for each ORDER_ID:

$ cat sale.csv

ORDER_ID,PRODUCT_CODE,COUNTRY_CODE,AMOUNT
1,PC_01,USA,200.00
2,PC_01,USA,46.34
3,PC_04,USA,123.54
4,PC_02,IND,99.76
5,PC_44,IND,245.00
6,PC_02,AUS,654.21
7,PC_03,USA,75.00
8,PC_01,SPN,355.00
9,PC_03,USA,34.02
10,PC_03,USA,567.07

We shall now create a sample application using Python API to find out the total sales amount by country and sort them in descending order by the total amount. The following example shows the code of our sample application:

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
from pyspark.sql.functions...
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