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Exercise

RDDs from Parallelized collections

Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD) is the basic abstraction in Spark. It is an immutable distributed collection of objects. Since RDD is a fundamental and backbone data type in Spark, it is important that you understand how to create it. In this exercise, you'll create your first RDD in PySpark from a collection of words.

Remember, you already have a SparkContext sc available in your workspace.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Create a RDD named RDD from a list of words.
  • Confirm the object created is RDD.