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Reynold Xin commented on SPARK-8992:
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This would be cool to have, but probably going to be challenging to design the 
API.

[~superhadooper] would you be interested in coming up with some design sketch?


> Add Pivot functionality to Spark SQL
> ------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-8992
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8992
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.0
>            Reporter: Richard Williamson
>
> SQLServer and other databases provide capabilities to transpose data from 
> columns to rows and rows to columns, the later is very useful for analytic 
> use cases like turning rows into feature columns for an MLlib model. Here is 
> a reference for the SQLServer implementation: 
> http://sqlhints.com/2014/03/10/pivot-and-unpivot-in-sql-server/
> Additional Referenced Request:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30244910/pivot-spark-dataframe



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