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evilpilotfish
evilpilotfish

Reputation: 153

Spark: Replace missing values with values from another column

Suppose you have a Spark dataframe containing some null values, and you would like to replace the values of one column with the values from another if present. In Python/Pandas you can use the fillna() function to do this quite nicely:

df = spark.createDataFrame([('a', 'b', 'c'),(None,'e', 'f'),(None,None,'i')], ['c1','c2','c3'])
DF = df.toPandas()
DF['c1'].fillna(DF['c2']).fillna(DF['c3'])

How can this be done using Pyspark?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6508

Answers (1)

eliasah
eliasah

Reputation: 40360

You need to use the coalesce function :

cDf = spark.createDataFrame([(None, None), (1, None), (None, 2)], ("a", "b"))
cDF.show()
# +----+----+
# |   a|   b|
# +----+----+
# |null|null|
# |   1|null|
# |null|   2|
# +----+----+

cDf.select(coalesce(cDf["a"], cDf["b"])).show()
# +--------------+
# |coalesce(a, b)|
# +--------------+
# |          null|
# |             1|
# |             2|
# +--------------+

cDf.select('*', coalesce(cDf["a"], lit(0.0))).show()
# +----+----+----------------+
# |   a|   b|coalesce(a, 0.0)|
# +----+----+----------------+
# |null|null|             0.0|
# |   1|null|             1.0|
# |null|   2|             0.0|
# +----+----+----------------+

You can also apply coalesce on multiple columns :

cDf.select(coalesce(cDf["a"], cDf["b"], lit(0))).show()
# ...

This example is taken from the pyspark.sql API documentation.

Upvotes: 11

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