# Best way to get pieces of a parquet into a dataframe

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**Category:** Data\
**Created:** [September 18, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-way-to-get-pieces-of-a-parquet-into-a-dataframe/5949 "2017-09-18T15:34:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-way-to-get-pieces-of-a-parquet-into-a-dataframe/5949/1 "2017-09-18T15:34:22Z")

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I’m looking for a minimal working example for loading some part of a parquet file into a dataframe and vice versa. I’m assuming that the only way to do this currently is with [Spark.jl](https://github.com/dfdx/Spark.jl).

Right now I don’t even know if there is a quick and easy way of writing an example parquet as I don’t see how to convert a `DataFrame` into a Spark `Dataset`.