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PYSPARK โ€ข LESSON 29

Multi-Column Structured Projection

How do we select and organize multiple employee profile columns in a single projection?

Beginnerโฑ 2 Minutesโญ 185 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How do we select and organize multiple employee profile columns in a single projection?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

Passing multiple Column references into select() to define the precise schema structure for downstream tasks.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Preparing clean feature matrices for machine learning and filtering enterprise ERP feeds.

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

df.select(
    col("emp_id"),
    col("first_name"),
    col("last_name"),
    col("salary")
).show()

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade PySpark code for Multi-Column Structured Projection.

  • โœ“ Project structured employee attributes
  • โœ“ Maintain clean code formatting
  • โœ“ Output curated employee dataset