Processing tweets with Spark

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Processing tweets with Spark

Continuing the examples from Getting started with Apache Spark:

  • load the tweets in ‘tweet-id-text-345/’ as JSON objects
  • collect only the texts from the tweets
  • split the texts into words and select all the hashtags
  • the step where you go from a column of lists-of-words to a columns of words is a little harder
    • import pyspark.sql.functions import export is the simplest way to do this
  • split the tweets into two sets of 80% and 20% size
  • find URLs in the texts and download a few image files