1 import pyarrow.dataset as ds
2 from itertools import groupby
4 # A pyarrow dataset abstracts reading, writing, or filtering a parquet file. It does not read dataa into memory.
6 dataset = ds.dataset('/gscratch/comdata/output/reddit_submissions_by_author.parquet', format='parquet')
8 # let's get all the comments to two subreddits:
9 subreddits_to_pull = ['seattlewa','seattle']
11 # instead of loading the data into a pandas dataframe all at once we can stream it.
12 scan_tasks = dataset.scan(filter = ds.field('subreddit').isin(subreddits_to_pull), columns=['id','subreddit','CreatedAt','author','ups','downs','score','subreddit_id','stickied','title','url','is_self','selftext'])
14 # simple function to execute scantasks and generate rows
15 def iterate_rows(scan_tasks):
17 for rb in st.execute():
19 for t in df.itertuples():
22 row_iter = iterate_rows(scan_tasks)
24 # now we can use python's groupby function to read one author at a time
25 # note that the same author can appear more than once since the record batches may not be in the correct order.
26 author_submissions = groupby(row_iter, lambda row: row.author)
30 for auth, posts in author_submissions:
31 if auth in count_dict:
32 count_dict[auth] = count_dict[auth] + 1
36 # since it's partitioned and sorted by author, we get one group for each author
37 any([ v != 1 for k,v in count_dict.items()])