title: Is it possible to read Excel file from Apache Zeppellin to PySpark or to a Pandas Dataframe?
body: <p>I have got a file in HDFS (/user/username/Project/data/file.xlsx) that I want to read into a DataFrame. (I do not care if it is a PySpark DataFrame or Pandas, but Pandas is preferred.)</p>
  
  <p>I am using a Zeppelin Notebook to do my code.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to get data from this file? </p>
  
  <p>I have already tried the following commands, but none of them worked:  </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><code>df = pd.read_excel("/user/username/Project/data/file.xlsx")</code>  </li>
  <li><code>df = pd.read_excel("hdfs:///user/username/Project/data/file.xlsx")</code></li>
  <li><code>df = pd.read_excel("hdfs://user/username/Project/data/file.xlsx")</code></li>
  </ul>