Q:

How to use matplotlib to plot pyspark sql results

I am new to pyspark.  I want to plot the result using matplotlib, but not sure which function to use.  I searched for a way to convert sql result to pandas and then use plot. 

A:

Hi Team I have found the solution for this.  I converted sql dataframe to pandas dataframe and then I was able to plot the graphs.  below is the sample code.from 
pyspark.sql import Row
from pyspark.sql import HiveContext
import pyspark
from IPython.display import display
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline 
sc = pyspark. SparkContext()
sqlContext = HiveContext(sc)
test_list = [(1, 'hasan'),(2, 'nana'),(3, 'dad'),(4, 'mon')]
rdd = sc.parallelize(test_list)
people = rdd.map(lambda x: Row(id=int(x[0]), name=x[1]))
schemaPeople = sqlContext.createDataFrame(people)
# Register it as a temp table
sqlContext.registerDataFrameAsTable(schemaPeople, "test_table")
df1=sqlContext.sql("Select * from test_table")
pdf1=df1.toPandas()
pdf1.plot(kind='barh',x='name',y='id',colormap='winter_r')

