additional-topic-pySpark-colab
!apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk-headless -qq > /dev/null
!wget -q https://downloads.apache.org/spark/spark-2.4.5/spark-2.4.5-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz
!tar xf spark-2.4.5-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz
!pip install -q findspark
- set your environment variables by running the following in the next notebook cell
import os
os.environ["JAVA_HOME"] = "/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64"
os.environ["SPARK_HOME"] = "/spark-2.4.5-bin-hadoop2.7"
- verify by running this cell
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder.master("local[*]").getOrCreate()
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