Saving iteratively to a new DataFrame in Pyspark - apache-spark

Question

I'm performing computations based on 3 different PySpark DataFrames.
This script works in the sense that it performs the computation as it should, however, I struggle with working properly with the results of said computation.
import sys
import numpy as np
from pyspark import SparkConf, SparkContext, SQLContext
sc = SparkContext("local")
sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)
# Dummy Data
df = sqlContext.createDataFrame([[0,1,0,0,0],[1,1,0,0,1],[0,0,1,0,1],[1,0,1,1,0],[1,1,0,0,0]], ['p1', 'p2', 'p3', 'p4', 'p5'])
df.show()
+---+---+---+---+---+
| p1| p2| p3| p4| p5|
+---+---+---+---+---+
| 0| 1| 0| 0| 0|
| 1| 1| 0| 0| 1|
| 0| 0| 1| 0| 1|
| 1| 0| 1| 1| 0|
| 1| 1| 0| 0| 0|
+---+---+---+---+---+
# Values
values = sqlContext.createDataFrame([(0,1,'p1'),(None,1,'p2'),(0,0,'p3'),(None,0, 'p4'),(1,None,'p5')], ('f1', 'f2','index'))
values.show()
+----+----+-----+
| f1| f2|index|
+----+----+-----+
| 0| 1| p1|
|null| 1| p2|
| 0| 0| p3|
|null| 0| p4|
| 1|null| p5|
+----+----+-----+
# Weights
weights = sqlContext.createDataFrame([(4,3,'p1'),(None,1,'p2'),(2,2,'p3'),(None, 3, 'p4'),(3,None,'p5')], ('f1', 'f2','index'))
weights.show()
+----+----+-----+
| f1| f2|index|
+----+----+-----+
| 4| 3| p1|
|null| 1| p2|
| 2| 2| p3|
|null| 3| p4|
| 3|null| p5|
+----+----+-----+
# Function: it sums the vector W for the values of Row equal to the value of V and then divide by the length of V.
# If there a no similarities between Row and V outputs 0
def W_sum(row,v,w):
if len(w[row==v])>0:
return float(np.sum(w[row==v])/len(w))
else:
return 0.0
For each of the columns and for each row in Data, the above function is applied.
# We iterate over the columns of Values (except the last one called index)
for val in values.columns[:-1]:
# we filter the data to work only with the columns that are defined for the selected Value
defined_col = [i[0] for i in values.where(F.col(val) >= 0).select(values.index).collect()]
# we select only the useful columns
df_select= df.select(defined_col)
# we retrieve the reference value and weights
V = np.array(values.where(values.index.isin(defined_col)).select(val).collect()).flatten()
W = np.array(weights.where(weights.index.isin(defined_col)).select(val).collect()).flatten()
W_sum_udf = F.udf(lambda row: W_sum(row, V, W), FloatType())
df_select.withColumn(val, W_sum_udf(F.array(*(F.col(x) for x in df_select.columns))))
This gives :
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| p1| p2| p3| p4| p5| f1|
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| 0| 1| 0| 0| 0|2.0|
| 1| 1| 0| 0| 1|1.0|
| 0| 0| 1| 0| 1|2.0|
| 1| 0| 1| 1| 0|0.0|
| 1| 1| 0| 0| 0|0.0|
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
It added the column to the sliced DataFrame as I asked it to. The problem is that I would rather collect the data into a new one that I could access at the end to consult the results.
It it possible to grow (somewhat efficiently) a DataFrame in PySpark as I would with pandas?
Edit to make my goal clearer:
Ideally I would get a DataFrame with the just the computed columns, like this:
+---+---+
| f1| f2|
+---+---+
|2.0|1.0|
|1.0|2.0|
|2.0|0.0|
|0.0|0.0|
|0.0|2.0|
+---+---+

Answer 1

There are some issues with your question...
First, your for loop will produce an error, since df_select in the last line is nowhere defined; there is also no assignment at the end (what does it produce?).
Assuming that df_select is actually your subsubsample dataframe, defined some lines before, and that your last line is something like
new_df = subsubsample.withColumn(val, W_sum_udf(F.array(*(F.col(x) for x in subsubsample.columns))))
then your problem starts getting more clear. Since
values.columns[:-1]
# ['f1', 'f2']
the result of the whole loop would be just
+---+---+---+---+---+
| p1| p2| p3| p4| f2|
+---+---+---+---+---+
| 0| 1| 0| 0|1.0|
| 1| 1| 0| 0|2.0|
| 0| 0| 1| 0|0.0|
| 1| 0| 1| 1|0.0|
| 1| 1| 0| 0|2.0|
+---+---+---+---+---+
i.e. with only the column f2 included (natural, since the results with f1 are simply overwritten).
Now, as I said, assuming that the situation is like this, and that your problem is actually how to have both columns f1 & f2 together rather in different dataframes, you can just forget subsubsample and append columns to your initial df, possibly dropping afterwards the unwanted ones:
init_cols = df.columns
init_cols
# ['p1', 'p2', 'p3', 'p4', 'p5']
new_df = df
for val in values.columns[:-1]:
# we filter the data to work only with the columns that are defined for the selected Value
defined_col = [i[0] for i in values.where(F.col(val) >= 0).select(values.index).collect()]
# we retrieve the reference value and weights
V = np.array(values.where(values.index.isin(defined_col)).select(val).collect()).flatten()
W = np.array(weights.where(weights.index.isin(defined_col)).select(val).collect()).flatten()
W_sum_udf = F.udf(lambda row: W_sum(row, V, W), FloatType())
new_df = new_df.withColumn(val, W_sum_udf(F.array(*(F.col(x) for x in defined_col)))) # change here
# drop initial columns:
for i in init_cols:
new_df = new_df.drop(i)
The resulting new_df will be:
+---+---+
| f1| f2|
+---+---+
|2.0|1.0|
|1.0|2.0|
|2.0|0.0|
|0.0|0.0|
|0.0|2.0|
+---+---+
UPDATE (after comment): To force the division in your W_sum function to be a float, use:
from __future__ import division
new_df now will be:
+---------+----+
| f1| f2|
+---------+----+
| 2.0| 1.5|
|1.6666666|2.25|
|2.3333333|0.75|
| 0.0|0.75|
|0.6666667|2.25|
+---------+----+
with f2 exactly as it should be according to your comment.