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<span id="user-guide-concepts"></span><h1>Concepts<a class="headerlink" href="#concepts" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>In this section, we will cover a basic example to introduce a few key concepts. We will use the
2021 Yellow Taxi Trip Records (<a class="reference external" href="https://d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net/trip-data/yellow_tripdata_2021-01.parquet">download</a>),
from the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/tlc/about/tlc-trip-record-data.page">TLC Trip Record Data</a>.</p>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">datafusion</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">SessionContext</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">col</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">lit</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">functions</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">f</span>
<span class="n">ctx</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">SessionContext</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">df</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ctx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_parquet</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;yellow_tripdata_2021-01.parquet&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">df</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">df</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">select</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;trip_distance&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">col</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;total_amount&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">alias</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;total&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">round</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">100.0</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">col</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;tip_amount&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="n">col</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;total_amount&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="n">lit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)))</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">alias</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;tip_percent&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">df</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
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+---------------+-------+-------------+
| trip_distance | total | tip_percent |
+---------------+-------+-------------+
| 2.1 | 11.8 | 0.0 |
| 0.2 | 4.3 | 0.0 |
| 14.7 | 51.95 | 16.7 |
| 10.6 | 36.35 | 16.6 |
| 4.94 | 24.36 | 16.7 |
| 1.6 | 14.15 | 16.6 |
| 4.1 | 17.3 | 0.0 |
| 5.7 | 21.8 | 0.0 |
| 9.1 | 28.8 | 0.0 |
| 2.7 | 18.95 | 16.6 |
| 6.11 | 24.3 | 0.0 |
| 1.21 | 10.79 | 23.1 |
| 7.4 | 33.92 | 0.0 |
| 1.7 | 14.16 | 16.7 |
| 0.81 | 8.3 | 0.0 |
| 1.01 | 10.3 | 9.7 |
| 0.73 | 12.09 | 23.1 |
| 1.17 | 12.36 | 16.7 |
| 0.78 | 9.96 | 16.7 |
| 1.66 | 12.3 | 0.0 |
+---------------+-------+-------------+
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<section id="session-context">
<h2>Session Context<a class="headerlink" href="#session-context" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>The first statement group creates a <a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/context/index.html#datafusion.context.SessionContext" title="datafusion.context.SessionContext"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SessionContext</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># create a context</span>
<span class="n">ctx</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datafusion</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SessionContext</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<p>A Session Context is the main interface for executing queries with DataFusion. It maintains the state
of the connection between a user and an instance of the DataFusion engine. Additionally it provides
the following functionality:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Create a DataFrame from a data source.</p></li>
<li><p>Register a data source as a table that can be referenced from a SQL query.</p></li>
<li><p>Execute a SQL query</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="dataframe">
<h2>DataFrame<a class="headerlink" href="#dataframe" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>The second statement group creates a <code class="code docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DataFrame</span></code>,</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Create a DataFrame from a file</span>
<span class="n">df</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ctx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read_parquet</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;yellow_tripdata_2021-01.parquet&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>A DataFrame refers to a (logical) set of rows that share the same column names, similar to a <a class="reference external" href="https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.html">Pandas DataFrame</a>.
DataFrames are typically created by calling a method on <a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/context/index.html#datafusion.context.SessionContext" title="datafusion.context.SessionContext"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SessionContext</span></code></a>, such as <code class="code docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">read_csv</span></code>, and can then be modified by
calling the transformation methods, such as <a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/dataframe/index.html#datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.filter" title="datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.filter"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">filter()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/dataframe/index.html#datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.select" title="datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.select"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">select()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/dataframe/index.html#datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.aggregate" title="datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.aggregate"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">aggregate()</span></code></a>,
and <a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/dataframe/index.html#datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.limit" title="datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.limit"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">limit()</span></code></a> to build up a query definition.</p>
<p>For more details on working with DataFrames, including visualization options and conversion to other formats, see <a class="reference internal" href="dataframe/index.html"><span class="doc">DataFrames</span></a>.</p>
</section>
<section id="expressions">
<h2>Expressions<a class="headerlink" href="#expressions" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>The third statement uses <code class="code docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Expressions</span></code> to build up a query definition. You can find
explanations for what the functions below do in the user documentation for
<a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/index.html#datafusion.col" title="datafusion.col"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">col()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/index.html#datafusion.lit" title="datafusion.lit"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">lit()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/functions/index.html#datafusion.functions.round" title="datafusion.functions.round"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">round()</span></code></a>,
and <a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/expr/index.html#datafusion.expr.Expr.alias" title="datafusion.expr.Expr.alias"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">alias()</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">df</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">df</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">select</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;trip_distance&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">col</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;total_amount&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">alias</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;total&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">round</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">100.0</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">col</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;tip_amount&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="n">col</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;total_amount&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="n">lit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)))</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">alias</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;tip_percent&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
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<p>Finally the <a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/dataframe/index.html#datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.show" title="datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.show"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">show()</span></code></a> method converts the logical plan
represented by the DataFrame into a physical plan and execute it, collecting all results and
displaying them to the user. It is important to note that DataFusion performs lazy evaluation
of the DataFrame. Until you call a method such as <a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/dataframe/index.html#datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.show" title="datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.show"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">show()</span></code></a>
or <a class="reference internal" href="../autoapi/datafusion/dataframe/index.html#datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.collect" title="datafusion.dataframe.DataFrame.collect"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">collect()</span></code></a>, DataFusion will not perform the query.</p>
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