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The Case Statement and the when Function in Spark

Tips and Traps

  1. Watch out for NaNs ..., behave might not what you expect ...

  2. None can be used for otherwise and yield null in DataFrame.

Column alias and postional columns can be used in group by in Spark SQL!!!

Notice the function when behaves like if-else.