In this PySpark tutorial, we will discuss how to get average value from single column/ multiple columns in two ways in an PySpark DataFrame.
Introduction:
DataFrame in PySpark is an two dimensional data structure that will store data in two dimensional format. One dimension refers to a row and second dimension refers to a column, So It will store the data in rows and columns.
Let's install pyspark module before going to this. The command to install any module in python is "pip".
Syntax:
pip install module_name
Installing PySpark:
pip install pyspark
Steps to create dataframe in PySpark:
1. Import the below modules
import pyspark
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
2. Create spark app named tutorialsinhand using getOrCreate() method
Syntax:
spark = SparkSession.builder.appName('tutorialsinhand').getOrCreate()
3. Create list of values for dataframe
4. Pass this list to createDataFrame() method to create pyspark dataframe
Syntax:
spark.createDataFrame(list of values)
Let's see the methods.
Method -1 : Using select()
mean() is an aggregate function used to get the average value from the given column in the PySpark DataFrame.
We have to import mean() method from pyspark.sql.functions
from pyspark.sql.functions import mean
Syntax:
dataframe.select(mean("column_name"),.............)
where, column_name is the column average value is returned.
Example 1:
In this example, we created pyspark dataframe with 5 rows and three columns and will get the average value from marks column.
# import the below modules
import pyspark
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
# create an app
spark = SparkSession.builder.appName('tutorialsinhand').getOrCreate()
#create a list of data
values = [{'rollno': 1, 'student name': 'Gottumukkala Sravan kumar','marks': 98},
{'rollno': 2, 'student name': 'Gottumukkala Bobby','marks': 89},
{'rollno': 3, 'student name': 'Lavu Ojaswi','marks': 90},
{'rollno': 4, 'student name': 'Lavu Gnanesh','marks': 78},
{'rollno': 5, 'student name': 'Chennupati Rohith','marks': 100}]
# create the dataframe from the values
data = spark.createDataFrame(values)
#import mean function
from pyspark.sql.functions import mean
#display mean of marks
print(data.select(mean("marks")).collect())
Output:
We are collecting the output with collect() method.
[Row(avg(marks)=91.0)]
Example 2:
In this example, we created pyspark dataframe with 5 rows and three columns and will get the average from marks and rollno column.
# import the below modules
import pyspark
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
# create an app
spark = SparkSession.builder.appName('tutorialsinhand').getOrCreate()
#create a list of data
values = [{'rollno': 1, 'student name': 'Gottumukkala Sravan kumar','marks': 98},
{'rollno': 2, 'student name': 'Gottumukkala Bobby','marks': 89},
{'rollno': 3, 'student name': 'Lavu Ojaswi','marks': 90},
{'rollno': 4, 'student name': 'Lavu Gnanesh','marks': 78},
{'rollno': 5, 'student name': 'Chennupati Rohith','marks': 100}]
# create the dataframe from the values
data = spark.createDataFrame(values)
#import mean function
from pyspark.sql.functions import mean
#display average of marks and rollno
print(data.select(mean("marks"),mean("rollno")).collect())
Output:
Average value from marks and rollno columns is returned.
[Row(avg(marks)=91.0, avg(rollno)=3.0)]
Method -2 : Using agg()
agg() stands for aggregation which will take dictionary in which key will be the column and value will be the mean function. It will return average from particular column provided as key
Syntax:
dataframe.agg({'column_name': 'mean',............})
where, column_name is the column average is returned.
Example:
In this example, we created pyspark dataframe with 5 rows and three columns and will get the average value from marks and rollno column.
# import the below modules
import pyspark
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
# create an app
spark = SparkSession.builder.appName('tutorialsinhand').getOrCreate()
#create a list of data
values = [{'rollno': 1, 'student name': 'Gottumukkala Sravan kumar','marks': 98},
{'rollno': 2, 'student name': 'Gottumukkala Bobby','marks': 89},
{'rollno': 3, 'student name': 'Lavu Ojaswi','marks': 90},
{'rollno': 4, 'student name': 'Lavu Gnanesh','marks': 78},
{'rollno': 5, 'student name': 'Chennupati Rohith','marks': 100}]
# create the dataframe from the values
data = spark.createDataFrame(values)
#display average marks and rollno
data.agg({'marks': 'mean','rollno': 'mean'}).collect()
Output:
Average value from marks and rollno columns is returned.
[Row(avg(rollno)=3.0, avg(marks)=91.0)]
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