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              <a href="MatrixMetadata.html" title="class in org.apache.sysds.api.mlcontext">MatrixMetadata</a>&nbsp;matrixMetadata)</pre>
<div class="block">Convert a Spark DataFrame to a SystemDS binary-block representation.</div>
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<dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
<dd><code>dataFrame</code> - the Spark DataFrame</dd>
<dd><code>matrixMetadata</code> - matrix metadata, such as number of rows and columns</dd>
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