Feb 24, 2021 · spark.sql("select * from test") --need to pass select values as intput values to same function --used pandas df for calling function – pythonUser Feb 24, 2021 at 16:08 For more information, see SPARK-5063. #88. mohaimenz opened this issue Jun 26, 2018 · 18 comments Comments. Copy link mohaimenz commented Jun 26, 2018.RuntimeError: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. Labels: Broadcast variable. Sparkcontext. 2_image.png.png. 37 KB.For more information, see SPARK-5063. · Issue #88 · maxpumperla/elephas · GitHub maxpumperla / elephas Public Closed on Jun 26, 2018 · 18 comments mohaimenz on Jun 26, 2018Jan 21, 2019 · Thread Pools. One of the ways that you can achieve parallelism in Spark without using Spark data frames is by using the multiprocessing library. The library provides a thread abstraction that you can use to create concurrent threads of execution. However, by default all of your code will run on the driver node. this rdd lacks a sparkcontext. it could happen in the following cases: . rdd transformations and actions are not invoked by the driver, . but inside of other transformations; for example, rdd1.map(x => rdd2.values.count() * x) is invalid because the values transformation and count action cannot be performed inside of the rdd1.map transformation Teams. Q&A for work. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Learn more about Teamsdf = spark.createDataFrame(data,schema=schema) Now we do two things. First, we create a function colsInt and register it. That registered function calls another function toInt (), which we don’t need to register. The first argument in udf.register (“colsInt”, colsInt) is the name we’ll use to refer to the function.The preservesPartitioning = true tells Spark that this map function doesn't modify the keys of rdd2; this will allow Spark to avoid re-partitioning rdd2 for any subsequent operations that join based on the (t, w) key. This broadcast could be inefficient since it involves a communications bottleneck at the driver. RuntimeError: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. Could I please get some help figuring this out? Thanks in advance!Jul 20, 2015 · Spark: Broadcast variables: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transforamtion. By referencing the object containing your broadcast variable in your map lambda, Spark will attempt to serialize the whole object and ship it to workers. Since the object contains a reference to the ... Above example first creates a DataFrame, transform the data using broadcast variable and yields below output. You can also use the broadcast variable on the filter and joins. Below is a filter example. # Broadcast variable on filter filteDf= df.where((df['state'].isin(broadcastStates.value)))Jul 25, 2020 · Teams. Q&A for work. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Learn more about Teams Feb 1, 2021 · I am getting the following error: PicklingError: Could not serialize object: Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. Jul 10, 2020 · Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transforamtion. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. Create a Function. The first step in creating a UDF is creating a Scala function. Below snippet creates a function convertCase () which takes a string parameter and converts the first letter of every word to capital letter. UDF’s take parameters of your choice and returns a value. val convertCase = (strQuote:String) => { val arr = strQuote ... For more information, see SPARK-5063. · Issue #88 · maxpumperla/elephas · GitHub maxpumperla / elephas Public Closed on Jun 26, 2018 · 18 comments mohaimenz on Jun 26, 2018Jul 14, 2015 · Spark: Broadcast variables: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transforamtion. 0. For more information, see SPARK-5063. (2) When a Spark Streaming job recovers from checkpoint, this exception will be hit if a reference to an RDD not defined by the streaming job is used in DStream operations. For more information, See SPARK-13758. Not working even after I revoked it and I'm not using any objects. Code Updated:281 "not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063." Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063.SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. For understanding a bit better what I am trying to do, let me give an example illustrating a possible use case : Lets say given_df is a dataframe of sentences, where each sentence consist of some words separated by space.I want to make sentiment analysis using Kafka and Spark. What I want to do is read Streaming Data from Kafka and then using Spark to batch the data. After that, I want to analyze the batch using function sentimentPredict() that I have maked using Tensorflow.org.apache.spark.SparkException: RDD transformations and actions can only be invoked by the driver, not inside of other transformations; for example, rdd1.map (x => rdd2.values.count () * x) is invalid because the values transformation and count action cannot be performed inside of the rdd1.map transformation. For more information, see SPARK-5063.Jul 14, 2015 · Spark: Broadcast variables: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transforamtion. 0. def pickleFile (self, name: str, minPartitions: Optional [int] = None)-> RDD [Any]: """ Load an RDD previously saved using :meth:`RDD.saveAsPickleFile` method... versionadded:: 1.1.0 Parameters-----name : str directory to the input data files, the path can be comma separated paths as a list of inputs minPartitions : int, optional suggested minimum number of partitions for the resulting RDD ... this rdd lacks a sparkcontext. it could happen in the following cases: . rdd transformations and actions are not invoked by the driver, . but inside of other transformations; for example, rdd1.map(x => rdd2.values.count() * x) is invalid because the values transformation and count action cannot be performed inside of the rdd1.map transformationPicklingError: Could not serialize object: Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063.with mlflow.start_run (run_name="SomeModel_run"): model = SomeModel () mlflow.pyfunc.log_model ("somemodel", python_model=model) RuntimeError: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers."Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transforamtion. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063." Any help with how to deal with the broadcast variables will be great!PicklingError: Could not serialize object: Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063.WARN ParallelCollectionRDD: Spark does not support nested RDDs (see SPARK-5063) par: org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[String]] = ParallelCollectionRDD[2] at parallelize at :28. Question 1. How does a parallelCollection work?. Question 2. Can I iterate through them and perform transformation? Question 3For more information, see SPARK-5063. During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: raise pickle.PicklingError(msg) _pickle.PicklingError: Could not serialize broadcast: RuntimeError: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, .. etcMar 18, 2021 · SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. For understanding a bit better what I am trying to do, let me give an example illustrating a possible use case : Lets say given_df is a dataframe of sentences, where each sentence consist of some words separated by space. broadcast [T] (value: T) (implicit arg0: ClassTag [T]): Broadcast [T] Broadcast a read-only variable to the cluster, returning a org.apache.spark.broadcast.Broadcast object for reading it in distributed functions. The variable will be sent to each cluster only once. You can only broadcast a real value, but an RDD is just a container of values ...Jul 25, 2020 · Teams. Q&A for work. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Learn more about Teams 3. Spark RDD Broadcast variable example. Below is a very simple example of how to use broadcast variables on RDD. This example defines commonly used data (country and states) in a Map variable and distributes the variable using SparkContext.broadcast () and then use these variables on RDD map () transformation. 4. The preservesPartitioning = true tells Spark that this map function doesn't modify the keys of rdd2; this will allow Spark to avoid re-partitioning rdd2 for any subsequent operations that join based on the (t, w) key. This broadcast could be inefficient since it involves a communications bottleneck at the driver.PicklingError: Could not serialize object: Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063.Jun 26, 2018 · Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. #88 Create a Function. The first step in creating a UDF is creating a Scala function. Below snippet creates a function convertCase () which takes a string parameter and converts the first letter of every word to capital letter. UDF’s take parameters of your choice and returns a value. val convertCase = (strQuote:String) => { val arr = strQuote ...I am getting the following error: PicklingError: Could not serialize object: Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063.Nov 15, 2015 · I want to broadcast a hashmap in Python that I would like to use for lookups on worker nodes. class datatransform: # Constructor def __init__(self, lookupFileName, dataFileName): ... Jul 25, 2020 · Teams. Q&A for work. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Learn more about Teams Jul 10, 2020 · Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transforamtion. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. For understanding a bit better what I am trying to do, let me give an example illustrating a possible use case : Lets say given_df is a dataframe of sentences, where each sentence consist of some words separated by space.Jan 31, 2023 · For more information, see SPARK-5063. During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: raise pickle.PicklingError(msg) _pickle.PicklingError: Could not serialize broadcast: RuntimeError: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, .. etc Jul 10, 2020 · Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transforamtion. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. SPARK-5063 relates to better error messages when trying to nest RDD operations, which is not supported. It's a usability issue, not a functional one. The root cause is the nesting of RDD operations and the solution is to break that up. Here we are trying a join of dRDD and mRDD.I am trying to write a function in Azure databricks. I would like to spark.sql inside the function. But it looks like I cannot use it with worker nodes. def SEL_ID(value, index): # some processing on value here ans = spark.sql("SELECT id FROM table WHERE bin = index") return ans spark.udf.register("SEL_ID", SEL_ID)Jul 20, 2015 · Spark: Broadcast variables: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transforamtion. By referencing the object containing your broadcast variable in your map lambda, Spark will attempt to serialize the whole object and ship it to workers. Since the object contains a reference to the ... Above example first creates a DataFrame, transform the data using broadcast variable and yields below output. You can also use the broadcast variable on the filter and joins. Below is a filter example. # Broadcast variable on filter filteDf= df.where((df['state'].isin(broadcastStates.value)))RDD transformations and actions can only be invoked by the driver, not inside of other transformations; for example, rdd1.map(lambda x: rdd2.values.count() * x) is invalid because the values transformation and count action cannot be performed inside of the rdd1.map transformation. For more information, see SPARK-5063.Jun 26, 2018 · For more information, see SPARK-5063. #88. mohaimenz opened this issue Jun 26, 2018 · 18 comments Comments. Copy link mohaimenz commented Jun 26, 2018. Error: Could not serialize object: Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063.Jul 10, 2020 · Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transforamtion. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. 3. Spark RDD Broadcast variable example. Below is a very simple example of how to use broadcast variables on RDD. This example defines commonly used data (country and states) in a Map variable and distributes the variable using SparkContext.broadcast () and then use these variables on RDD map () transformation. 4. SparkContext can only be used on the driver. When you invoke map you are on an Executor. The link I sent you runs parallel collection and is invoked from the Driver, also doing some zipping stuff. I discussed this with that person on that question as that is what became of it. That is the correct approach imho.Often, a unit of execution in an application consists of multiple Spark actions or jobs. Application programmers can use this method to group all those jobs together and give a group description. Once set, the Spark web UI will associate such jobs with this group.Details. _pickle.PicklingError: Could not serialize object: Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063.Jul 7, 2022 · with mlflow.start_run (run_name="SomeModel_run"): model = SomeModel () mlflow.pyfunc.log_model ("somemodel", python_model=model) RuntimeError: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. Apache Spark. Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS includes Apache Spark 3.2.1. This release includes all Spark fixes and improvements included in Databricks Runtime 10.3 (Unsupported), as well as the following additional bug fixes and improvements made to Spark: [SPARK-38322] [SQL] Support query stage show runtime statistics in formatted explain mode.3. Spark RDD Broadcast variable example. Below is a very simple example of how to use broadcast variables on RDD. This example defines commonly used data (country and states) in a Map variable and distributes the variable using SparkContext.broadcast () and then use these variables on RDD map () transformation. 4.Sep 30, 2022 · Part of AWS Collective. 1. I have created a script locally that uses the spark extension 'uk.co.gresearch.spark:spark-extension_2.12:2.2.0-3.3' for comparing different DataFrames in a simple manner. However, when I try this out on AWS Glue I ran into some issues and received this error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gresearch'. I am getting the following error: PicklingError: Could not serialize object: Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063.Nov 11, 2017 · For more information, see SPARK-5063. edit: It seems the issue is that sklearn cross_validate() clones the estimator for each fit in a fashion similar to pickling the estimator object which is not allowed for PySpark GridsearchCV estimator because a SparkContext() object cannot/should not be pickled. This article describes how Apache Spark is related to Azure Databricks and the Azure Databricks Lakehouse Platform. Apache Spark is at the heart of the Azure Databricks Lakehouse Platform and is the technology powering compute clusters and SQL warehouses. Azure Databricks is an optimized platform for Apache Spark, providing an efficient and ...I have a function that accepts a spark DataFrame and I would like to obtain the Spark context in which the DataFrames exists. The reason is that I want to get the SQLContext so I can run some SQL queries. sql_Context = SQLContext (output_df.sparkContext ()) sql_Context.registerDataFrameAsTable (output_df, "table1") sql_Context.sql ("select ...Sep 30, 2015 · org.apache.spark.SparkException: RDD transformations and actions can only be invoked by the driver, not inside of other transformations; for example, rdd1.map (x => rdd2.values.count () * x) is invalid because the values transformation and count action cannot be performed inside of the rdd1.map transformation. For more information, see SPARK-5063. Apr 23, 2015 · SPARK-5063 relates to better error messages when trying to nest RDD operations, which is not supported. It's a usability issue, not a functional one. The root cause is the nesting of RDD operations and the solution is to break that up. Here we are trying a join of dRDD and mRDD. def localCheckpoint (self): """ Mark this RDD for local checkpointing using Spark's existing caching layer. This method is for users who wish to truncate RDD lineages while skipping the expensive step of replicating the materialized data in a reliable distributed file system. Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. #883. Spark RDD Broadcast variable example. Below is a very simple example of how to use broadcast variables on RDD. This example defines commonly used data (country and states) in a Map variable and distributes the variable using SparkContext.broadcast () and then use these variables on RDD map () transformation. 4. spark的调试问题. spark运行过程中的数据总是以RDD的方式存储，使用Logger等日志模块时，对RDD内数据无法识别，应先使用行为操作转化为scala数据结构然后输出。. scala Map 排序. 对于scala Map数据的排序，使用 scala.collection.immutable.ListMap 和 sortWiht (sortBy),具体用法如下 ... I am trying to write a function in Azure databricks. I would like to spark.sql inside the function. But it looks like I cannot use it with worker nodes. def SEL_ID(value, index): # some processing on value here ans = spark.sql("SELECT id FROM table WHERE bin = index") return ans spark.udf.register("SEL_ID", SEL_ID)Jul 25, 2020 · Teams. Q&A for work. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Learn more about Teams Aug 5, 2020 · I am trying to write a function in Azure databricks. I would like to spark.sql inside the function. But it looks like I cannot use it with worker nodes. def SEL_ID(value, index): # some processing on value here ans = spark.sql("SELECT id FROM table WHERE bin = index") return ans spark.udf.register("SEL_ID", SEL_ID) @G_cy the broadcast is an optimization of serialization. With serialization, Spark would need to serialize the map with each task dispatched to the executors.May 27, 2017 · broadcast [T] (value: T) (implicit arg0: ClassTag [T]): Broadcast [T] Broadcast a read-only variable to the cluster, returning a org.apache.spark.broadcast.Broadcast object for reading it in distributed functions. The variable will be sent to each cluster only once. You can only broadcast a real value, but an RDD is just a container of values ... Jun 26, 2018 · For more information, see SPARK-5063. #88. mohaimenz opened this issue Jun 26, 2018 · 18 comments Comments. Copy link mohaimenz commented Jun 26, 2018. Part of AWS Collective. 1. I have created a script locally that uses the spark extension 'uk.co.gresearch.spark:spark-extension_2.12:2.2.0-3.3' for comparing different DataFrames in a simple manner. However, when I try this out on AWS Glue I ran into some issues and received this error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gresearch'.Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. #88Often, a unit of execution in an application consists of multiple Spark actions or jobs. Application programmers can use this method to group all those jobs together and give a group description. Once set, the Spark web UI will associate such jobs with this group.
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Spark nested transformations SPARK-5063. I am trying to get a filtered list of list of auctions around the time of specific winning auctions while using spark. The winning auction RDD, and the full auctions DD is made up of case classes with the format: I would like to filter the full auctions RDD where auctions occurred within 10 seconds of ...Mar 26, 2020 · For more information, see SPARK-5063. 原因： spark不允许在action或transformation中访问SparkContext，如果你的action或transformation中引用了self，那么spark会将整个对象进行序列化，并将其发到工作节点上，这其中就保留了SparkContext，即使没有显式的访问它，它也会在闭包内被引用 ... For more information, see SPARK-5063. · Issue #88 · maxpumperla/elephas · GitHub maxpumperla / elephas Public Closed on Jun 26, 2018 · 18 comments mohaimenz on Jun 26, 2018Jun 7, 2023 · RuntimeError: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. Labels: Broadcast variable. Sparkcontext. 2_image.png.png. 37 KB. Feb 24, 2021 · spark.sql("select * from test") --need to pass select values as intput values to same function --used pandas df for calling function – pythonUser Feb 24, 2021 at 16:08 Topics. Adding Spark and PySpark jobs in AWS Glue. Using auto scaling for AWS Glue. Tracking processed data using job bookmarks. Workload partitioning with bounded execution. AWS Glue Spark shuffle plugin with Amazon S3. Monitoring AWS Glue Spark jobs.pyspark.SparkContext.broadcast. ¶. SparkContext.broadcast(value: T) → pyspark.broadcast.Broadcast [ T] [source] ¶. Broadcast a read-only variable to the cluster, returning a Broadcast object for reading it in distributed functions. The variable will be sent to each cluster only once. New in version 0.7.0. Parameters. valueT.Oct 29, 2018 · 2. Think about Spark Broadcast variable as a Python simple data type like list, So the problem is how to pass a variable to the UDF functions. Here is an example: Suppose we have ages list d and a data frame with columns name and age. So we want to check if the age of each person is in ages list. RuntimeError: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. Could I please get some help figuring this out? Thanks in advance!Jan 21, 2019 · Thread Pools. One of the ways that you can achieve parallelism in Spark without using Spark data frames is by using the multiprocessing library. The library provides a thread abstraction that you can use to create concurrent threads of execution. However, by default all of your code will run on the driver node. Jan 31, 2023 · For more information, see SPARK-5063. During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: raise pickle.PicklingError(msg) _pickle.PicklingError: Could not serialize broadcast: RuntimeError: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, .. etc Jun 26, 2018 · Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. #88 3. Spark RDD Broadcast variable example. Below is a very simple example of how to use broadcast variables on RDD. This example defines commonly used data (country and states) in a Map variable and distributes the variable using SparkContext.broadcast () and then use these variables on RDD map () transformation. 4.RDD transformations and actions can only be invoked by the driver, not inside of other transformations; for example, rdd1.map(lambda x: rdd2.values.count() * x) is invalid because the values transformation and count action cannot be performed inside of the rdd1.map transformation. For more information, see SPARK-5063.this rdd lacks a sparkcontext. it could happen in the following cases: . rdd transformations and actions are not invoked by the driver, . but inside of other transformations; for example, rdd1.map(x => rdd2.values.count() * x) is invalid because the values transformation and count action cannot be performed inside of the rdd1.map transformation def textFile (self, name, minPartitions = None, use_unicode = True): """ Read a text file from HDFS, a local file system (available on all nodes), or any Hadoop-supported file system URI, and return it as an RDD of Strings.For more information, see SPARK-5063. As the error says, i'm trying to map (transformation) a JavaRDD object within the main map function, how is it possible with Apache Spark? The main JavaPairRDD object (TextFile and Word are defined classes): JavaPairRDD<TextFile, JavaRDD<Word>> filesWithWords = new... and map function:Feb 1, 2021 · I am getting the following error: PicklingError: Could not serialize object: Exception: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, action, or transformation. SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. May 27, 2017 · broadcast [T] (value: T) (implicit arg0: ClassTag [T]): Broadcast [T] Broadcast a read-only variable to the cluster, returning a org.apache.spark.broadcast.Broadcast object for reading it in distributed functions. The variable will be sent to each cluster only once. You can only broadcast a real value, but an RDD is just a container of values ... Jan 31, 2023 · For more information, see SPARK-5063. During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: raise pickle.PicklingError(msg) _pickle.PicklingError: Could not serialize broadcast: RuntimeError: It appears that you are attempting to reference SparkContext from a broadcast variable, .. etc SparkContext can only be used on the driver, not in code that it run on workers. For more information, see SPARK-5063. For understanding a bit better what I am trying to do, let me give an example illustrating a possible use case : Lets say given_df is a dataframe of sentences, where each sentence consist of some words separated by space..