DataFrame scenario – on-time flight performance

To showcase the types of queries you can do with DataFrames, let's look at the use case of on-time flight performance. We will analyze the Airline On-Time Performance and Causes of Flight Delays: On-Time Data (http://bit.ly/2ccJPPM), and join this with the airports dataset, obtained from the Open Flights Airport, airline, and route data (http://bit.ly/2ccK5hw), to better understand the variables associated with flight delays.

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For this section, we will be using Databricks Community Edition (a free offering of the Databricks product), which you can get at https://databricks.com/try-databricks. We will be using visualizations and pre-loaded datasets within Databricks to make it easier for you to focus ...

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