Let's say I have a data set of restaurant reviews:
User,City,Restaurant,Rating
Jim,New York,Mecurials,3
Jim,New York,Whapme,4.5
Jim,London,Pint Size,2
Lisa,London,Pint Size,4
Lisa,London,Rabbit Whole,3.5
And I want to produce a list by user and city of average review. I.e. output:
User,City,AverageRating
Jim,New York,3.75
Jim,London,2
Lisa,London,3.75
I could write a Pig script as follows:
Data = LOAD 'data.txt' USING PigStorage(',') AS (
user:chararray, city:chararray, restaurant:charray, rating:float
);
PerUserCity = GROUP Data BY (user, city);
ResultSet = FOREACH PerUserCity {
GENERATE group.user, group.city, AVG(Data.rating);
}
However I'm curious whether I can first group the higher level group (the users) and then sub group the next level (the cities) later: i.e.
PerUser = GROUP Data BY user;
Intermediate = FOREACH PerUser {
B = GROUP Data BY city;
GENERATE group AS user, B;
}
I get:
Error during parsing.
Invalid alias: GROUP in {
group: chararray,
Data: {
user: chararray,
city: chararray,
restaurant: chararray,
rating: float
}
}
Has anyone tried this with success? Is it simply not possible to GROUP within a FOREACH?
My goal is to do something like:
ResultSet = FOREACH PerUser {
FOREACH City {
GENERATE user, city, AVG(City.rating)
}
}