diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c9a12169..3a867c6c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
-*.idea*
-*.DS_Store*
-*postgres-data*
\ No newline at end of file
+# virtual environment files...
+**/.venv/*
+**/.virtual/*
+
+# caching files...
+**/__pycache__/*
+*.pyc
+*.DS_Store
diff --git a/Exercises/Exercise-6/Dockerfile b/Exercises/Exercise-6/Dockerfile
index 149bbecb..7ec7ce8f 100644
--- a/Exercises/Exercise-6/Dockerfile
+++ b/Exercises/Exercise-6/Dockerfile
@@ -1,23 +1,39 @@
-FROM ubuntu:18.04
+#FROM python:latest
+FROM python:3.11-slim
+
+# RUN apt-get update && \
+#     apt-get install -y default-jdk scala wget vim software-properties-common python3.8 python3-pip curl unzip libpq-dev build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev && \
+#     apt-get clean
 
 RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y default-jdk scala wget vim software-properties-common python3.8 python3-pip curl unzip libpq-dev build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev && \
-    apt-get clean
+    apt-get install -y default-jdk curl wget unzip && \
+    apt-get clean && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ENV SPARK_VERSION=3.0.1
+ENV HADOOP_VERSION=3.2
+ENV SPARK_HOME=/usr/local/spark
+ENV PATH=$SPARK_HOME/bin:$PATH
+
+# RUN wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/spark/spark-3.0.1/spark-3.0.1-bin-hadoop3.2.tgz && \
+#     tar xvf spark-3.0.1-bin-hadoop3.2.tgz && \
+#     mv spark-3.0.1-bin-hadoop3.2/ /usr/local/spark && \
+#     ln -s /usr/local/spark spark && \
+#     wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/amazonaws/aws-java-sdk-bundle/1.11.890/aws-java-sdk-bundle-1.11.890.jar && \
+#     mv aws-java-sdk-bundle-1.11.890.jar /spark/jars && \
+#     wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/hadoop/hadoop-aws/3.2.0/hadoop-aws-3.2.0.jar && \
+#     mv hadoop-aws-3.2.0.jar /spark/jars
 
-RUN wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/spark/spark-3.0.1/spark-3.0.1-bin-hadoop3.2.tgz && \
-    tar xvf spark-3.0.1-bin-hadoop3.2.tgz && \
-    mv spark-3.0.1-bin-hadoop3.2/ /usr/local/spark && \
-    ln -s /usr/local/spark spark && \
-    wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/amazonaws/aws-java-sdk-bundle/1.11.890/aws-java-sdk-bundle-1.11.890.jar && \
-    mv aws-java-sdk-bundle-1.11.890.jar /spark/jars && \
-    wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/hadoop/hadoop-aws/3.2.0/hadoop-aws-3.2.0.jar && \
-    mv hadoop-aws-3.2.0.jar /spark/jars
+RUN wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/spark/spark-${SPARK_VERSION}/spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}.tgz && \
+    tar xvf spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}.tgz && \
+    mv spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION} ${SPARK_HOME} && \
+    rm spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}.tgz
 
 
 WORKDIR app
 COPY . /app
 
-RUN pip3 install markupsafe==1.1.1 cryptography==3.3.2 cython==0.29.21 numpy==1.18.5 && pip3 install -r requirements.txt
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 
 ENV PYSPARK_PYTHON=python3
 ENV PYSPARK_SUBMIT_ARGS='--packages io.delta:delta-core_2.12:0.8.0 pyspark-shell'
diff --git a/Exercises/Exercise-6/main.py b/Exercises/Exercise-6/main.py
index aa8f7efd..84eec8e9 100644
--- a/Exercises/Exercise-6/main.py
+++ b/Exercises/Exercise-6/main.py
@@ -1,9 +1,204 @@
+import os
+from zipfile import ZipFile
+
+import pandas as pd
 from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
+from pyspark.sql.functions as F
+from pyspark.sql.types as T
+from pyspark.sql.window import Window
+
+REPORTS = {
+    1: "daily_trip_dur.csv",
+    2: "daily_num_trips.csv",
+    3: "monthly_top_stations.csv",
+    4: "two_week_top_three_stations.csv",
+    5: "gender_trip_length.csv",
+    6: "top_ten_ages_long_short_trips.csv"
+}
+
+
+def top_ten_ages(sdf):
+    # generate report 6
+    # ? top 10 ages: longest trips, shortest trips
+    # sort by trip duration, desc.
+    # take top 10, and final 10
+    # get ages column
+    # merge into one df, sorted on trip duration, desc
+    # or or
+    # we can group by age, avg agg respectively on their trip durations, and take top + bottom 10 of ages when sorted desc on avg trip duration.
+    #
+    valid_sdf = sdf.filter(sdf.birthyear.isNotNull())
+    ages_sdf = sdf.withColumn('age', F.floor(F.months_between(F.current_date() - F.col('birthyear')) / 12).cast(T.IntegerType()))
+    ages_sdf = ages_sdf.groupBy('age').agg(F.avg(ages_sdf.trip_duration).alias('age_avg_trip_duration'))
+
+    top_ten_sdf = ages_sdf.orderBy(F.col('age_avg_trip_duration').desc()).limit(10)
+    bottom_ten_sdf = ages_sdf.orderBy(F.col('age_avg_trip_duration').asc()).limit(10)
+    top_bottom_ten_sdf = bottom_ten_sdf.union(top_ten_sdf)  # output csv...
+
+
+def avg_trip_by_gender(sdf):
+    # generate report 5
+    # do males or females take longer trips...
+    # drop any NA gender valued rows
+    # group by male and agg avg their trip duration and alias new col
+    # group by female and agg avg their trip duration and alias new col
+    # rank the counts and output
+
+    valid_sdf = sdf.filter(sdf.gender.isNotNull())
+    gender_avg_trip_sdf = valid_sdf.groupBy('gender').agg(F.avg(valid_sdf.trip_duration).alias('gender_avg_trip_duration'))  # output csv...
+
+
+def top_three_daily_stations(sdf):
+    # generate report 4
+    #
+    # find final timestamp and backtrack two weeks. use methodology of above, but limit 3 instead and group by day.
+    sorted_sdf = sdf.sort(F.col('start_time').desc())
+    sorted_sdf = sorted_sdf.withColumn('last_day', F.lit(sorted_sdf.first()['start_time']))
+    last_2w_sdf = sorted_sdf.filter(F.datediff(sorted_sdf.last_day - sorted_sdf.start_time) < 15)
+
+    last_2w_sdf = last_2w_sdf.withColumn('start_date', F.to_date(last_2w_sdf.start_time))
+    last_2w_sdf = last_2w_sdf.groupBy('start_date', 'start_station_id').agg(F.count().alias('day_visit_count'))
+    window = Window.partitionBy('start_date').orderBy(F.col('day_visit_count').desc())
+
+    top_three_daily_station_sdf = last_2w_sdf.withColumn('rank', F.dense_rank().over(window)).filter(F.col('rank') < 4).drop('rank')  # output csv
+
+    # sdf = sdf.na.fill('0', subset=['tripduration'])  # fill in empty durations
+    # sdf = sdf.na.drop('all', subset=['end_time'])  # drop any missing timestamps; needed for aggregation
+    #
+
+
+def top_station_monthly(sdf):
+    # generate report 3
+    # make a month-year column to aggregate for popular station
+    # use windows to go with dense_rank()
+    month_station_sdf = sdf.withColumn('start_month_date', F.to_date(sdf.start_time, 'MM/yyyy'))
+    # popularStartStation_sdf = sdf.groupBy('start_month_date', 'start_station_name').agg(F.count().alias('station_count')).sort(F.col('station_count').desc()).limit(1).select('month_date', 'start_station_name')
+    station_count_sdf = month_station_sdf.groupBy('start_month_date', 'start_station_id').agg(F.count().alias('month_visit_count'))
+    window = Window.partitionBy('start_month_date').orderBy(F.col('month_visit_count').desc())  # could add additional arg describing to order by alphabet to have a definite first.
+
+    top_station_monthly_sdf = station_count_sdf.withColumn('rank', F.dense_rank().over(window)).filter(F.col('rank') == 1).drop('rank')  # output csv...
+
+def trip_count_per_day(sdf):
+    # generate report 2
+    countTripsByDay_sdf = sdf.groupBy('end_date').withColumn('trip_count', F.count('trip_id')).select(F.col('end_date'), F.col('trip_count'))  # output csv...
+
+
+def avg_trip_per_day(sdf):
+    # generate report 1
+    # what is the avg trip duration per day?
+    # find all null tripduration values, and attempt to calulcate. then join that df to complete df on trip_id
+    emptyTripDur_sdf = sdf.filter(sdf.tripduration.isNull())
+    # cast as a `double` to increase precision past integer values.
+    calculatedTripDur_sdf = emptyTripDur_sdf.withColumn('tripduration',
+                                       F.col('end_time').cast(T.DoubleType()) - F.col('start_time').cast(T.DoubleType()))
+    # join the dataframes on trip id
+    sdf = sdf.join(calculatedTripDur_sdf, on = (sdf.trip_id) == calculatedTripDur_sdf.trip_id, how = 'outer')
+    # make a date column
+    sdf = sdf.withColumn('end_date', F.col('end_time').cast(T.DateType()))
+
+    avgTripDurationDay_sdf = (sdf.groupBy('end_date').agg(F.avg(sdf.tripduration).alias('trip_duration')).select(F.col('end_date'), F.col('trip_duration')))  # output csv...
+
+    avgTripDurationDay_sdf.coalesce(1).write.mode('overwrite').option('header', 'true').csv('/reports/report_1')
+    
+    return
 
 
 def main():
     spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("Exercise6").enableHiveSupport().getOrCreate()
-    # your code here
+
+    spark.conf.set('spark.sql.execution.arrow.pyspark.enabled', 'true')
+
+    cwd = os.getcwd()
+    path_0, path_1 = os.path.join(cwd, 'Divvy_Trips_2019_Q4.zip'), os.path.join(cwd, 'Divvy_Trips_2020_Q1.zip')
+
+    sdf_0, sdf_1 = None, None
+
+    FILE_IMPORT_SCHEMA = T.StructType([
+        T.StructField('ride_id', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('trip_id', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('rideable_type', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('started_at', T.TimestampType(), True),
+        T.StructField('start_time', T.TimestampType(), True),
+        T.StructField('ended_at', T.TimestampType(), True),
+        T.StructField('end_time', T.TimestampType(), True),
+        T.StructField('start_station_name', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('from_station_name', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('start_station_id', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('from_station_id', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('end_station_name', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('to_station_name', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('end_station_id', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('to_station_id', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('start_lat', T.FloatType(), True),
+        T.StructField('start_lng', T.FloatType(), True),
+        T.StructField('end_lat', T.FloatType(), True),
+        T.StructField('end_lng', T.FloatType(), True),
+        T.StructField('member_casual', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('bikeid', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('tripduration', T.FloatType(), True),
+        T.StructField('usertype', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('gender', T.StringType(), True),
+        T.StructField('birthyear', T.DateType(), True),
+
+    ])
+
+    RENAME_MAP = {
+        'ride_id': 'trip_id',
+        'started_at': 'start_time',
+        'ended_at': 'end_time',
+        'from_station_name': 'start_station_name',
+        'from_station_id': 'start_station_id',
+        'to_station_name': 'end_station_name',
+        'to_station_id': 'end_station_id'
+    }
+
+    # helper for renaming columns for a seamless join
+    def rename_columns(df, renameMap):
+        for name, rename in renameMap.items():
+            df = df.withColumnRenamed(name, rename)
+        return df
+
+
+    # unzip
+    with ZipFile(path_0) as czip:
+        with czip.open('Divvy_Trips_2019_Q4.csv') as csv_0:
+            sdf_0 = (
+                spark
+                .read
+                .format('csv')
+                .option('header', True)
+                .schema(FILE_IMPORT_SCHEMA)
+                .load(csv_0)
+                .transform(lambda sdf: rename_columns(sdf, RENAME_MAP))
+            )
+
+    with ZipFile(path_1) as czip:
+        with czip.open('Divvy_Trips_2020_Q1.csv') as csv_1:
+            sdf_1 = (
+                spark
+                .read
+                .format('csv')
+                .option('header', True)
+                .schema(FILE_IMPORT_SCHEMA)
+                .load(csv_1)
+                .transform(lambda sdf: rename_columns(sdf, RENAME_MAP))
+            )
+
+    sdf = sdf_0.join(sdf_1, how='outer')
+
+    avg_trip_per_day(sdf)
+
+    trip_count_per_day(sdf)
+
+    top_station_monthly(sdf)
+
+    top_three_daily_stations(sdf)
+
+    avg_trip_by_gender(sdf)
+
+    top_ten_ages(sdf)
+    
+    return
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/Exercises/Exercise-6/requirements.txt b/Exercises/Exercise-6/requirements.txt
index 3a5974da..3d22cf3a 100644
--- a/Exercises/Exercise-6/requirements.txt
+++ b/Exercises/Exercise-6/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
+cython==0.29.21
+cryptography==3.3.2
+markupsafe==1.1.1
+numpy
+pandas
 pytest
-pyspark
\ No newline at end of file
+pyspark