Script to demonstrate reading parquet.

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+import pyarrow.dataset as ds
+import pyarrow as pa
+# A pyarrow dataset abstracts reading, writing, or filtering a parquet file. It does not read dataa into memory. 
+#dataset = ds.dataset(pathlib.Path('/gscratch/comdata/output/reddit_submissions_by_subreddit.parquet/'), format='parquet', partitioning='hive')
+dataset = ds.dataset('/gscratch/comdata/output/reddit_submissions_by_subreddit.parquet/', format='parquet', partitioning='hive')
+
+# let's get all the comments to two subreddits:
+subreddits_to_pull = ['seattle','seattlewa']
+
+# a table is a low-level structured data format.  This line pulls data into memory. Setting metadata_n_threads > 1 gives a little speed boost.
+table = dataset.to_table(filter = ds.field('subreddit').isin(subreddits_to_pull), columns=['id','subreddit','CreatedAt','author','ups','downs','score','subreddit_id','stickied','title','url','is_self','selftext'])
+
+# Since data from just these 2 subreddits fits in memory we can just turn our table into a pandas dataframe.
+df = table.to_pandas()
+
+# We should save this smaller dataset so we don't have to wait 15 min to pull from parquet next time.
+df.to_csv("mydataset.csv")