Analyzing flight data using GraphX

Let's analyze flight data by representing the airports as vertices and routes as edges. Let's do some basic graph analytics to find out departures and arrivals and also analyze the data with the Pregel API to find out the cheapest fares. Download the flight data from the following location:

http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236&DB_Short_Name=On-Time

The steps to analyze the data are as follows:

  1. Select OriginAirportID, Origin, DestAirportID, Dest, and Distance then click Download. Copy the ZIP file onto the cluster, unzip it, and then copy the contents to HDFS:
    unzip 355968671_T_ONTIME.zip

hadoop fs -put 355968671_T_ONTIME.csv
  2. Get into the Scala shell using the spark-shell command and then ...

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