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PYSPARK โ€ข LESSON 74

Calculating Financial Totals with sum()

How do we compute total gross revenue across all transactions using the sum() function?

Intermediateโฑ 2 Minutesโญ 360 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How do we compute total gross revenue across all transactions using the sum() function?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

sum() calculates the total numerical sum across all rows for a target Column.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Executive financial reporting, revenue tracking, and batch volume monitoring.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
from pyspark.sql.functions import col, sum

df.select(sum(col("amount")).alias("total_revenue")).show()

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade PySpark code for Calculating Financial Totals with sum().

  • โœ“ Import sum function
  • โœ“ Aggregate transaction amounts
  • โœ“ Alias calculated total revenue