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Working with Text Data in PySpark

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Text columns require their own preprocessing pipeline before they can be used in a model. Raw strings need to be split into tokens, cleaned, and eventually converted into numeric vectors.

The flights dataset does not contain free-text fields, but CANCELLATION_REASON is a categorical code. To demonstrate text processing, you will work with a small synthetic dataset of flight status descriptions alongside the main dataset.

Creating a Text DataFrame

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import urllib.request from pyspark.sql import SparkSession urllib.request.urlretrieve( "https://staging-content-media-cdn.codefinity.com/courses/aa80ac56-0d50-49e8-9231-2c2374cd3e9d/flights.csv", "flights.csv" ) spark = SparkSession.builder \ .appName("TextData") \ .master("local[*]") \ .getOrCreate() # Synthetic flight status descriptions text_df = spark.createDataFrame([ (1, "flight delayed due to bad weather conditions"), (2, "technical issue caused significant departure delay"), (3, "flight cancelled due to severe weather"), (4, "late aircraft arrival caused departure delay"), (5, "air traffic control delay affected departure time"), ], ["id", "description"]) text_df.show(truncate=False)

Tokenization

Tokenizer splits a string into lowercase tokens by whitespace:

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from pyspark.ml.feature import Tokenizer tokenizer = Tokenizer(inputCol="description", outputCol="tokens") tokenized_df = tokenizer.transform(text_df) tokenized_df.select("description", "tokens").show(truncate=False)

Removing Stop Words

Common words like "due", "to", and "a" carry little meaning. StopWordsRemover filters them out:

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from pyspark.ml.feature import StopWordsRemover remover = StopWordsRemover(inputCol="tokens", outputCol="filtered_tokens") filtered_df = remover.transform(tokenized_df) filtered_df.select("tokens", "filtered_tokens").show(truncate=False)
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What does StopWordsRemover do to a list of tokens?

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