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PYSPARK โ€ข LESSON 120

Production Financial & Retention Window Pipeline

How do we build a complete financial analytics pipeline computing previous spend, cumulative spend, and growth?

Advancedโฑ 3 Minutesโญ 760 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How do we build a complete financial analytics pipeline computing previous spend, cumulative spend, and growth?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

An analytics pipeline combining lag(), cumulative running sum(), and difference arithmetic.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Enterprise customer spend analytics, credit underwriting models, and revenue expansion forecasting.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
from pyspark.sql.window import Window
from pyspark.sql.functions import col, lag, round, sum

user_window = Window.partitionBy("user_id").orderBy("transaction_date")
running_window = Window.partitionBy("user_id").orderBy("transaction_date").rowsBetween(Window.unboundedPreceding, Window.currentRow)

analytics_df = transactions \
    .withColumn("prev_spend", lag(col("amount"), 1).over(user_window)) \
    .withColumn("cum_spend", sum(col("amount")).over(running_window)) \
    .withColumn("spend_growth", round(col("amount") - col("prev_spend"), 2))

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade PySpark code for Production Financial & Retention Window Pipeline.

  • โœ“ Define user and running window specifications
  • โœ“ Compute prior spend and cumulative spend
  • โœ“ Calculate transaction-over-transaction growth