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Question: Explain the purpose of the 'coalesce' method in PySpark.
Answer: The 'coalesce' method is used to reduce the number of partitions in a PySpark DataFrame. It helps in optimizing the performance when the number of partitions is unnecessarily large.

Example:

df_coalesced = df.coalesce(5)
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