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PYSPARK • LESSON 120

Production Financial & Retention Window Pipeline

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

Advanced3 Minutes760 XP
🤔 THE QUESTION

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

💡 WHAT IS IT?

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

🎯 WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

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

💻 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))

🎯 Mission Objectives

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

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