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PYSPARK โ€ข LESSON 160

Production Vectorized Machine Learning Scoring Pipeline

How do we build a vectorized customer churn risk scoring pipeline combining spend and tenure features?

Expertโฑ 3 Minutesโญ 950 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How do we build a vectorized customer churn risk scoring pipeline combining spend and tenure features?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

A vectorized scoring pipeline using a multi-feature Pandas UDF to predict customer churn probability at scale.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Batch ML inference pipelines scoring hundreds of millions of customer profiles daily.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
import pandas as pd
from pyspark.sql.functions import col, pandas_udf

@pandas_udf("double")
def predict_churn_risk(spend: pd.Series, tenure: pd.Series) -> pd.Series:
    return 1.0 / (1.0 + (spend * 0.001) + (tenure * 0.05))

scored_df = customer_features.withColumn(
    "churn_risk_score",
    predict_churn_risk(col("annual_spend"), col("tenure_months"))
)

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade PySpark code for Production Vectorized Machine Learning Scoring Pipeline.

  • โœ“ Define multi-column vectorized Pandas UDF
  • โœ“ Vectorize mathematical scoring equation
  • โœ“ Apply vectorized ML model at scale