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+   "id": "90484ea3-113d-4578-a654-1f80d22d49e6",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "# Unsupervised ML\n",
+    "\n",
+    "TEXT"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "241961fd-69dd-4036-839c-d5ff609e034a",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# read in packages create spark environment\n",
+    "from pyspark.sql import SparkSession\n",
+    "from pyspark.sql import functions as F\n",
+    "\n",
+    "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n",
+    "%matplotlib inline\n",
+    "\n",
+    "spark = SparkSession.builder.appName('supervised').getOrCreate()\n",
+    "\n",
+    "#change configuration settings on Spark \n",
+    "conf = spark.sparkContext._conf.setAll([('spark.executor.memory', '4g'), ('spark.app.name', 'Spark Updated Conf'), ('spark.executor.cores', '4'), ('spark.cores.max', '4'), ('spark.driver.memory','4g')])\n",
+    "\n",
+    "#print spark configuration settings\n",
+    "spark.sparkContext.getConf().getAll()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "6e8338f7-2c56-4e05-b6b3-78577485dae4",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "### Reading in cleaned data, partitioning"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "b98781e4-a2cd-4da2-aa73-70de31956265",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# read in rideshare data for all years, concatenate, create appropriate partitioning\n",
+    "# we are dropping 2020 because covid will affect the performance of our model\n",
+    "\n",
+    "df_2018 = spark.read.csv(\"gs://msca-bdp-student-gcs/bdp-rideshare-project/rideshare/processed_data/rides_2018.csv\", inferSchema=True, header=True)\n",
+    "df_2019 = spark.read.csv(\"gs://msca-bdp-student-gcs/bdp-rideshare-project/rideshare/processed_data/rides_2019.csv\", inferSchema=True, header=True)\n",
+    "df_2021 = spark.read.csv(\"gs://msca-bdp-student-gcs/bdp-rideshare-project/rideshare/processed_data/rides_2021.csv\", inferSchema=True, header=True)\n",
+    "df_2022 = spark.read.csv(\"gs://msca-bdp-student-gcs/bdp-rideshare-project/rideshare/processed_data/rides_2022.csv\", inferSchema=True, header=True)\n",
+    "df_2023 = spark.read.csv(\"gs://msca-bdp-student-gcs/bdp-rideshare-project/rideshare/processed_data/rides_2023.csv\", inferSchema=True, header=True)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# dropping new columns in 2023\n",
+    "df_2023 = df_2023.drop('Shared Trip Match','Percent Time Chicago','Percent Distance Chicago')\n",
+    "\n",
+    "df_all = df_2018.union(df_2019).union(df_2021).union(df_2022).union(df_2023)\n",
+    "df_all.show(5)"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
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