Useful PySpark SQL Functions for a Quick Start

Ariel Jiang
Towards Dev
Published in
9 min readMar 22, 2022

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As the name suggested, PySpark is a python interface for Spark. It allows you to write Spark applications to query and analyze data, and build machine learning models using Python APIs. In this article, I will focus on PySpark SQL, a Spark module for structured data processing and distributed SQL query. You will find a few useful functions below for igniting a spark of your big data project.

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