PySpark — Read CSV file into Dataframe

Ryan Arjun
4 min readJan 15, 2021

As we know that PySpark is a Python API for Apache Spark where as Apache Spark is an Analytical Processing Engine for large scale powerful distributed data processing and machine learning applications.

Read CSV file into spark dataframe, drop some columns, and add new columns

If you want to process a large dataset which is saved as a csv file and would like to read CSV file into spark dataframe, drop some columns, and add new columns. So, we are doing this operation…

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Ryan Arjun

BI Specialist || Azure || AWS || GCP — SQL|Python|PySpark — Talend, Alteryx, SSIS — PowerBI, Tableau, SSRS