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[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-30449) Introducing get_dummies method in pyspark

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Krishna Kumar Tiwari commented on SPARK-30449:
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I am already working on this, will share the PR soon. 

> Introducing get_dummies method in pyspark
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-30449
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-30449
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: PySpark
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.4
>            Reporter: Krishna Kumar Tiwari
>            Priority: Major
>
> Introducing get_dummies method in pyspark same as pandas.
> Many times when using categorical variable and we want to flatten the data to do one-hot encoding to generate columns and fill the matrix, get_dummies is very useful in that scenario.
>  
> The objective here is to introduce get_dummies to pyspark.
>  



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