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Learning PySpark
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Learning PySpark

by Tomasz Drabas, Denny Lee
February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
274 pages
5h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preparing your flights dataset

For this flights sample scenario, we will make use of two sets of data:

  • Airline On-Time Performance and Causes of Flight Delays: [http://bit.ly/2ccJPPM] This dataset contains scheduled and actual departure and arrival times, and delay causes as reported by US air carriers. The data is collected by the Office of Airline Information, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
  • Open Flights: Airports and airline data: [http://openflights.org/data.html] This dataset contains the list of US airport data including the IATA code, airport name, and airport location.

We will create two DataFrames – airports and departureDelays–which will make up our vertices and edges of our GraphFrame, respectively. We will be creating this ...

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ISBN: 9781786463708