How to iterate over pairs in a column in Scala - scala

Question

I have a data frame like this, imported from a parquet file:
| Store_id | Date_d_id |
| 0 | 23-07-2017 |
| 0 | 26-07-2017 |
| 0 | 01-08-2017 |
| 0 | 25-08-2017 |
| 1 | 01-01-2016 |
| 1 | 04-01-2016 |
| 1 | 10-01-2016 |
What I am trying to achieve next is to loop through each customer's date in pair and get the day difference. Here is what it should look like:
| Store_id | Date_d_id | Day_diff |
| 0 | 23-07-2017 | null |
| 0 | 26-07-2017 | 3 |
| 0 | 01-08-2017 | 6 |
| 0 | 25-08-2017 | 24 |
| 1 | 01-01-2016 | null |
| 1 | 04-01-2016 | 3 |
| 1 | 10-01-2016 | 6 |
And finally, I will like to reduce the data frame to the average day difference by customer:
| Store_id | avg_diff |
| 0 | 7.75 |
| 1 | 3 |
I am very new to Scala and I don't even know where to start. Any help is highly appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Also, I am using Zeppelin notebook

Answer 1

One approach would be to use lag(Date) over Window partition and a UDF to calculate the difference in days between consecutive rows, then follow by grouping the DataFrame for the average difference in days. Note that Date_d_id is converted to yyyy-mm-dd format for proper String ordering within the Window partitions:
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
import org.apache.spark.sql.expressions.Window
val df = Seq(
(0, "23-07-2017"),
(0, "26-07-2017"),
(0, "01-08-2017"),
(0, "25-08-2017"),
(1, "01-01-2016"),
(1, "04-01-2016"),
(1, "10-01-2016")
).toDF("Store_id", "Date_d_id")
def daysDiff = udf(
(d1: String, d2: String) => {
import java.time.LocalDate
import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit.DAYS
DAYS.between(LocalDate.parse(d1), LocalDate.parse(d2))
}
)
val df2 = df.
withColumn( "Date_ymd",
regexp_replace($"Date_d_id", """(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)""", "$3-$2-$1")).
withColumn( "Prior_date_ymd",
lag("Date_ymd", 1).over(Window.partitionBy("Store_id").orderBy("Date_ymd"))).
withColumn( "Days_diff",
when($"Prior_date_ymd".isNotNull, daysDiff($"Prior_date_ymd", $"Date_ymd")).
otherwise(0L))
df2.show
// +--------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+
// |Store_id| Date_d_id| Date_ymd|Prior_date_ymd|Days_diff|
// +--------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+
// | 1|01-01-2016|2016-01-01| null| 0|
// | 1|04-01-2016|2016-01-04| 2016-01-01| 3|
// | 1|10-01-2016|2016-01-10| 2016-01-04| 6|
// | 0|23-07-2017|2017-07-23| null| 0|
// | 0|26-07-2017|2017-07-26| 2017-07-23| 3|
// | 0|01-08-2017|2017-08-01| 2017-07-26| 6|
// | 0|25-08-2017|2017-08-25| 2017-08-01| 24|
// +--------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+
val resultDF = df2.groupBy("Store_id").agg(avg("Days_diff").as("Avg_diff"))
resultDF.show
// +--------+--------+
// |Store_id|Avg_diff|
// +--------+--------+
// | 1| 3.0|
// | 0| 8.25|
// +--------+--------+

Answer 2

You can use lag function to get the previous date over Window function, then do some manipulation to get the final dataframe that you require
first of all the Date_d_id column need to be converted to include timestamp for sorting to work correctly
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
val timestapeddf = df.withColumn("Date_d_id", from_unixtime(unix_timestamp($"Date_d_id", "dd-MM-yyyy")))
which should give your dataframe as
+--------+-------------------+
|Store_id| Date_d_id|
+--------+-------------------+
| 0|2017-07-23 00:00:00|
| 0|2017-07-26 00:00:00|
| 0|2017-08-01 00:00:00|
| 0|2017-08-25 00:00:00|
| 1|2016-01-01 00:00:00|
| 1|2016-01-04 00:00:00|
| 1|2016-01-10 00:00:00|
+--------+-------------------+
then you can apply the lag function over window function and finally get the date difference as
import org.apache.spark.sql.expressions._
val windowSpec = Window.partitionBy("Store_id").orderBy("Date_d_id")
val laggeddf = timestapeddf.withColumn("Day_diff", when(lag("Date_d_id", 1).over(windowSpec).isNull, null).otherwise(datediff($"Date_d_id", lag("Date_d_id", 1).over(windowSpec))))
laggeddf should be
+--------+-------------------+--------+
|Store_id|Date_d_id |Day_diff|
+--------+-------------------+--------+
|0 |2017-07-23 00:00:00|null |
|0 |2017-07-26 00:00:00|3 |
|0 |2017-08-01 00:00:00|6 |
|0 |2017-08-25 00:00:00|24 |
|1 |2016-01-01 00:00:00|null |
|1 |2016-01-04 00:00:00|3 |
|1 |2016-01-10 00:00:00|6 |
+--------+-------------------+--------+
now the final step is to use groupBy and aggregation to find the average
laggeddf.groupBy("Store_id")
.agg(avg("Day_diff").as("avg_diff"))
which should give you
+--------+--------+
|Store_id|avg_diff|
+--------+--------+
| 0| 11.0|
| 1| 4.5|
+--------+--------+
Now if you want to neglect the null Day_diff then you can do
laggeddf.groupBy("Store_id")
.agg((sum("Day_diff")/count($"Day_diff".isNotNull)).as("avg_diff"))
which should give you
+--------+--------+
|Store_id|avg_diff|
+--------+--------+
| 0| 8.25|
| 1| 3.0|
+--------+--------+
I hope the answer is helpful