Apache Spark is an open source framework that allows us to process large volumes of data in a distributed way. How? By dividing the large volumes of data, impossible to process in one machine, and distributing them among the different…
When processing data we often find ourselves in a situation where we want to calculatevariables over certain subset of observations. For example, we might be interested in theaverage value per group or the maximum value for each group. The groupBy…
Definitive guide to configure the Pyspark development environment in Pycharm; one of the most complete options. Spark has become the Big Data tool par excellence, helping us to process large volumes of data in a simplified, clustered and fault-tolerant way.…