Retrieve top n in each group of a DataFrame in pys

问题:

There's a DataFrame in pyspark with data as below:

user_id object_id score
user_1  object_1  3
user_1  object_1  1
user_1  object_2  2
user_2  object_1  5
user_2  object_2  2
user_2  object_2  6

What I expect is returning 2 records in each group with the same user_id, which need to have the highest score. Consequently, the result should look as the following:

user_id object_id score
user_1  object_1  3
user_1  object_2  2
user_2  object_2  6
user_2  object_1  5

I'm really new to pyspark, could anyone give me a code snippet or portal to the related documentation of this problem? Great thanks!

回答1:

I believe you need to use window functions to attain the rank of each row based on user_id and score, and subsequently filter your results to only keep the first two values.

from pyspark.sql.window import Window
from pyspark.sql.functions import rank, col

window = Window.partitionBy(df['user_id']).orderBy(df['score'].desc())

df.select('*', rank().over(window).alias('rank')) 
  .filter(col('rank') <= 2) 
  .show() 
#+-------+---------+-----+----+
#|user_id|object_id|score|rank|
#+-------+---------+-----+----+
#| user_1| object_1|    3|   1|
#| user_1| object_2|    2|   2|
#| user_2| object_2|    6|   1|
#| user_2| object_1|    5|   2|
#+-------+---------+-----+----+

In general, the official programming guide is a good place to start learning Spark.

Data

rdd = sc.parallelize([("user_1",  "object_1",  3), 
                      ("user_1",  "object_2",  2), 
                      ("user_2",  "object_1",  5), 
                      ("user_2",  "object_2",  2), 
                      ("user_2",  "object_2",  6)])
df = sqlContext.createDataFrame(rdd, ["user_id", "object_id", "score"])

回答2:

Top-n is more accurate if using row_number instead of rank when getting rank equality:

val n = 5
df.select(col('*'), row_number().over(window).alias('row_number')) \
  .where(col('row_number') <= n) \
  .limit(20) \
  .toPandas()

Note limit(20).toPandas() trick instead of show() for Jupyter notebooks for nicer formatting.

回答3:

I know the question is asked for pyspark and I was looking for the similar answer in Scala i.e.

Retrieve top n values in each group of a DataFrame in Scala

Here is the scala version of @mtoto's answer.

import org.apache.spark.sql.expressions.Window
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.rank
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.col

val window = Window.partitionBy("user_id").orderBy('score desc)
val rankByScore = rank().over(window)
df1.select('*, rankByScore as 'rank).filter(col("rank") <= 2).show() 
# you can change the value 2 to any number you want. Here 2 represents the top 2 values

More examples can be found here.

回答4:

To Find Nth highest value in PYSPARK SQLquery using ROW_NUMBER() function:

SELECT * FROM (
    SELECT e.*, 
    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY col_name DESC) rn 
    FROM Employee e
)
WHERE rn = N

N is the nth highest value required from the column

Output:

[Stage 2:>               (0 + 1) / 1]++++++++++++++++
+-----------+
|col_name   |
+-----------+
|1183395    |
+-----------+

query will return N highest value