# PySpark on Google Colab

In this blog post, I will explain how to install PySpark on Google Colab

# Installing Colab

1. Open [drive.google.com](http://drive.google.com) in your favorite browser.
    
2. Click on **New** on top left → Click on **More → Connect more apps**
    
3. Search for Colab and install.
    

# Installing PySpark Libraries on Colab

```plaintext
#install Apache Spark 3.0.1 with Hadoop 2.7 from here.
!wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/spark/spark-3.0.0/spark-3.0.0-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz

# Now, we just need to unzip that folder.
!tar -xvzf spark-3.0.0-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz
!pip install findspark


import os
os.environ["SPARK_HOME"] = "/content/spark-3.0.0-bin-hadoop2.7"
import findspark
findspark.init()
```

# Create Spark Session

```plaintext
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder.master("local").appName("RDD Demo").getOrCreate()
sc = spark.sparkContext
```

# Create RDD

```plaintext
data = list(range(1,101))
rdd = sc.parallelize(data)
rdd.take(5)
```

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