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PySpark Cookbook
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PySpark Cookbook

by Denny Lee, Tomasz Drabas
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
9h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Spark context parallelize method

Under the covers, there are quite a few actions that happened when you created your RDD. Let's start with the RDD creation and break down this code snippet:

myRDD = sc.parallelize(  [('Mike', 19), ('June', 18), ('Rachel',16), ('Rob', 18), ('Scott', 17)])

Focusing first on the statement in the sc.parallelize() method, we first created a Python list (that is, [A, B, ..., E]) composed of a list of arrays (that is, ('Mike', 19), ('June', 19), ..., ('Scott', 17)). The sc.parallelize() method is the SparkContext's parallelize method to create a parallelized collection. This allows Spark to distribute the data across multiple nodes, instead of depending on a single node to process the data:

Now that we have created ...

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ISBN: 9781788835367