I have trouble understanding how to use the pyspark code to vertically explode JSON string in the FAQ section, could you help me clarifying that?

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Hi, I have trouble understanding how to use the pyspark code to vertically explode JSON string in the FAQ section, could you help me clarifying that?

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Hey @Guanting_Yi ! The sample code on the FAQ page takes Patterns data as a PySpark DataFrame and vertically explodes the visitor_home_cbgs column into many rows. If you’re using another column containing JSON, please substitute accordingly with the sample code.

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Thanks for replying. I didn’t see where the code imports the data. Maybe I misunderstood?

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Ahh, got it. Correct - that’s just some snippets to get you started. I know you’ve also asked separately to meet with Pranav for some help. Might be a good thing to walk through with Pranav for some 1:1 guidance. Here’s his calendar:

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Thanks Niki, I’ll try to talk to Pranav!

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Awesome! To prevent any further questions from being overlooked, I’ll go ahead and close this thread out. If you have any more questions or follow-up questions, we’re always here to help! Just be sure to make a new post to help, as we aren’t monitoring old threads at this time. Thanks!