Introduction to User-defined Functions
Explore how to write user-defined functions in PySpark to extend data transformations beyond built-in methods. Understand translating Python functions to PySpark types, decorate them with type annotations, and apply them efficiently within PySpark DataFrames.
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Overview
The majority of the use cases we encounter in our day-to-day analysis or data engineering work can be resolved with methods or functions provided by the SQL or DataFrame API in PySpark. If built-in methods are not enough, we can write our own function, which we can use for a ...