Convert a spark DataFrame to pandas DF

Question

Is there a way to convert a Spark Df (not RDD) to pandas DF

I tried the following:

var some_df = Seq(
 (\"A\", \"no\"),
 (\"B\", \"yes\"),
 (\"B\", \         


        

Answer 1

Converting spark data frame to pandas can take time if you have large data frame. So you can use something like below:

spark.conf.set("spark.sql.execution.arrow.enabled", "true")

pd_df = df_spark.toPandas()

I have tried this in DataBricks.

Answer 2

In my case the following conversion from spark dataframe to pandas dataframe worked:

pandas_df = spark_df.select("*").toPandas()

Answer 3

following should work

some_df = sc.parallelize([
 ("A", "no"),
 ("B", "yes"),
 ("B", "yes"),
 ("B", "no")]
 ).toDF(["user_id", "phone_number"])
pandas_df = some_df.toPandas()