There’s a DataFrame in pyspark with data as below:
user_id object_id score user_1 object_1 3 user_1 object_1 1 user_1 object_2 2 user_2 object_1 5 user_2 object_2 2 user_2 object_2 6
What I expect is returning 2 records in each group with the same user_id, which need to have the highest score. Consequently, the result should look as the following:
user_id object_id score user_1 object_1 3 user_1 object_2 2 user_2 object_2 6 user_2 object_1 5
I’m really new to pyspark, could anyone give me a code snippet or portal to the related documentation of this problem? Great thanks!
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Answer
I believe you need to use window functions to attain the rank of each row based on user_id and score, and subsequently filter your results to only keep the first two values.
from pyspark.sql.window import Window
from pyspark.sql.functions import rank, col
window = Window.partitionBy(df['user_id']).orderBy(df['score'].desc())
df.select('*', rank().over(window).alias('rank'))
.filter(col('rank') <= 2)
.show()
#+-------+---------+-----+----+
#|user_id|object_id|score|rank|
#+-------+---------+-----+----+
#| user_1| object_1| 3| 1|
#| user_1| object_2| 2| 2|
#| user_2| object_2| 6| 1|
#| user_2| object_1| 5| 2|
#+-------+---------+-----+----+
In general, the official programming guide is a good place to start learning Spark.
Data
rdd = sc.parallelize([("user_1", "object_1", 3),
("user_1", "object_2", 2),
("user_2", "object_1", 5),
("user_2", "object_2", 2),
("user_2", "object_2", 6)])
df = sqlContext.createDataFrame(rdd, ["user_id", "object_id", "score"])