Apache Spark 2 for Beginners by 2016

Author:2016
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Packt Publishing

Figure 13

In the preceding section, Spark DataFrames were created to get the datasets for the number of action movies and drama movies released over the period of the last 10 years. The data was collected into Python collection objects and line graphs were drawn in the same figure.

Python, in conjunction with the matplotlib library, is very rich in terms of methods to produce publication-quality charts and plots. Spark can be used as the workhorse for processing the data coming from heterogeneous sources of data, and the results can also be saved to a wide variety of data formats.

Those who are exposed to the Python data analysis library pandas will find it easy to understand the material covered in this chapter because Spark DataFrames designed from the ground up by taking inspiration from the R DataFrame as well as pandas.

This chapter has covered only a few sample charts and plots that can be created using the matplotlib library. The main idea of this chapter was to help the reader understand the capability of using this library in conjunction with Spark, where Spark is doing the data processing, and matplotlib is doing the charting and plotting.

The data file used in this chapter is read from a local filesystem. Instead of this, it can be read from HDFS or any other Spark-supported data source.

When using Spark as the primary framework for data processing, the most important point to keep in mind is that any possible data processing is to be done by Spark, mainly because Spark can do data processing in the best way. Only the processed data is to be returned to the Spark driver program for doing the charting and plotting.

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