Spark DataFrame groupBy and sort in the descending order (pyspark)

Question

I\'m using pyspark(Python 2.7.9/Spark 1.3.1) and have a dataframe GroupObject which I need to filter & sort in the descending order. Trying to achieve it via this piece of c

Answer 1

you can use groupBy and orderBy as follows also

dataFrameWay = df.groupBy("firstName").count().withColumnRenamed("count","distinct_name").sort(desc("count"))