#dfcreate1.py: create a df from a collection #please ignore next 2 statements if running directly in PySpark shell import time from pyspark.sql import SparkSession from pyspark.sql.functions import regexp_replace, lit, when spark = SparkSession.builder.master("local[*]")\ .appName("DataFrame Test app")\ .getOrCreate() data = [('James','','Bylsma','HR','M',40000), ('Kamal','Rahim','','HR','M',41000), ('Robert','','Zaine','Finance','M',35000), ('Sophia','Anne','Richer','Finance','F',47000), ('John','Will','Brown','Engineering','F',65000) ] columns = ["firstname","middlename","lastname", "department","gender","salary"] df = spark.createDataFrame(data=data, schema = columns) df.createOrReplaceTempView("EMP_DATA") df2 = spark.sql("SELECT * FROM EMP_DATA") print(df2.show()) df3 = spark.sql("SELECT firstname, middlename, lastname, " "salary FROM EMP_DATA WHERE SALARY > 45000") print(df3.show()) df4 = spark.sql(("SELECT gender, count(*) from EMP_DATA group by gender")) print(df4.show())