Introduction
This chapter uncovers some of the basic techniques to tackle text data using PySpark. Today's textual form of data is being generated at a lightning pace with multiple social media platforms offering users the options to share their opinions, suggestions, comments, etc. The area that focuses on making machines learn and understand the textual data in order to perform some useful tasks is known as Natural Language Processing (NLP). The text data could be structured or unstructured, and we have to apply multiple steps in order to make it analysis ready. NLP ...
