[minor doc] Add exploratory data analysis warning for DataFrame.stat.freqItem API

Author: Reynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>

Closes #6569 from rxin/freqItemsWarning and squashes the following commits:

7eec145 [Reynold Xin] [minor doc] Add exploratory data analysis warning for DataFrame.stat.freqItem API.
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@ -1170,6 +1170,9 @@ class DataFrame(object):
"http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/762471.762473, proposed by Karp, Schenker, and Papadimitriou".
:func:`DataFrame.freqItems` and :func:`DataFrameStatFunctions.freqItems` are aliases.
This function is meant for exploratory data analysis, as we make no guarantee about the
backward compatibility of the schema of the resulting DataFrame.
:param cols: Names of the columns to calculate frequent items for as a list or tuple of
strings.
:param support: The frequency with which to consider an item 'frequent'. Default is 1%.

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@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ final class DataFrameStatFunctions private[sql](df: DataFrame) {
* [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/762471.762473, proposed by Karp, Schenker, and Papadimitriou]].
* The `support` should be greater than 1e-4.
*
* This function is meant for exploratory data analysis, as we make no guarantee about the
* backward compatibility of the schema of the resulting [[DataFrame]].
*
* @param cols the names of the columns to search frequent items in.
* @param support The minimum frequency for an item to be considered `frequent`. Should be greater
* than 1e-4.
@ -114,6 +117,9 @@ final class DataFrameStatFunctions private[sql](df: DataFrame) {
* [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/762471.762473, proposed by Karp, Schenker, and Papadimitriou]].
* Uses a `default` support of 1%.
*
* This function is meant for exploratory data analysis, as we make no guarantee about the
* backward compatibility of the schema of the resulting [[DataFrame]].
*
* @param cols the names of the columns to search frequent items in.
* @return A Local DataFrame with the Array of frequent items for each column.
*
@ -128,6 +134,9 @@ final class DataFrameStatFunctions private[sql](df: DataFrame) {
* frequent element count algorithm described in
* [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/762471.762473, proposed by Karp, Schenker, and Papadimitriou]].
*
* This function is meant for exploratory data analysis, as we make no guarantee about the
* backward compatibility of the schema of the resulting [[DataFrame]].
*
* @param cols the names of the columns to search frequent items in.
* @return A Local DataFrame with the Array of frequent items for each column.
*
@ -143,6 +152,9 @@ final class DataFrameStatFunctions private[sql](df: DataFrame) {
* [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/762471.762473, proposed by Karp, Schenker, and Papadimitriou]].
* Uses a `default` support of 1%.
*
* This function is meant for exploratory data analysis, as we make no guarantee about the
* backward compatibility of the schema of the resulting [[DataFrame]].
*
* @param cols the names of the columns to search frequent items in.
* @return A Local DataFrame with the Array of frequent items for each column.
*