Spark text file analysis

In this example, we will look through a news article to determine some basic information from it.

We will be using the following script against the 2600raid news article (from http://newsitem.com/):

import pyspark
if not 'sc' in globals():
    sc = pyspark.SparkContext()
sentences = sc.textFile('2600raid.txt') \
    .glom() \
    .map(lambda x: " ".join(x)) \
    .flatMap(lambda x: x.split("."))
print(sentences.count(),"sentences")
bigrams = sentences.map(lambda x:x.split()) \
    .flatMap(lambda x: [((x[i],x[i+1]),1) for i in range(0,len(x)-1)])
print(bigrams.count(),"bigrams")
frequent_bigrams = bigrams.reduceByKey(lambda x,y:x+y) \
    .map(lambda x:(x[1],x[0])) \
    .sortByKey(False)
frequent_bigrams.take(10)

The code reads in the article and splits up the article into sentences as determined by ending with a period. From there, the code maps out the bigrams present. A bigram is a pair of words...