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Best way of loading several csv files in a table

CleverAnjos
New Contributor III

What would be the best way of loading several files like in a single table to be consumed?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/nyc-tlc/trip+data/yellow_tripdata_2019-10.csvhttps://s3.amazonaws.com/nyc-t...

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Yes,

1) Downloaded the files using sh from here https://s3.amazonaws.com/nyc-tlc/trip+data/yellow_tripdata_<year>-<month>.csv to /mnt

2) Loaded a dataframe with the csv files

3) Stored as a partitioned table

I donยดt know if this the best approach, but its working

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Hubert-Dudek
Esteemed Contributor III

New Your Taxi data from your example is already included in your workspace as it is demo dataset.

It is enough to read "yellow" folder and it will read all csvs from there.

If you want to save it as a single file you can do .repartition(1).write.csv(destination_folder).save()

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Great!

Unfortunately it seems that nytaxi is outdated. there is no records from 2021 and 2020 and 2019 is barely uncomplete

+-----------+------------------+

| 2010| 169001154|

| 2011| 176897208|

| 2015| 146112990|

| 2014| 165114361|

| 2013| 173179759|

| 2012| 178544324|

| 2009| 170896987|

| 2016| 131165043|

| 2017| 113496933|

| 2018| 102803387|

| 2041| 3|

| 2008| 585|

| 2001| 15|

| 2029| 6|

| 2002| 33|

| 2053| 2|

| 2003| 23|

| 2020| 438|

| 2019| 84397753|

| 2037| 1|

+-----------+------------------+

CleverAnjos
New Contributor III

Thanks Kaniz, I already have the files. I was discussing about the best way to load them

Yes,

1) Downloaded the files using sh from here https://s3.amazonaws.com/nyc-tlc/trip+data/yellow_tripdata_<year>-<month>.csv to /mnt

2) Loaded a dataframe with the csv files

3) Stored as a partitioned table

I donยดt know if this the best approach, but its working

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