Exercise

Creating a SparkSession

Let's start with creating a new SparkSession. In this course, you will be usually provided with one, but creating a new one or getting an existing one is a must-have skill!

Instructions

100 XP

Import SparkSession from pyspark.sql.
Make a new SparkSession called "my_spark" using SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate().
Print my_spark to the console to verify it's a SparkSession.

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