Setup
Explore the initial setup for data transformation by loading original datasets using Pandas and snapshot data using PySpark. Understand importing essential libraries, creating utility functions for data loading and column selection, and initializing PySpark sessions to efficiently read parquet snapshot data.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Overview of the setup
First, we need to load our snapshot of the original data. In the case of pandas, we load the original data. However, for PySpark, we use the snapshot.
Here’s the list of imports we would need to work with pandas and PySpark: ...