pyspark.pandas.Series.sample

Series.sample(n=None, frac=None, replace=False, random_state=None, ignore_index=False)

Return a random sample of items from an axis of object.

Please call this function using named argument by specifying the frac argument.

You can use random_state for reproducibility. However, note that different from pandas, specifying a seed in pandas-on-Spark/Spark does not guarantee the sampled rows will be fixed. The result set depends on not only the seed, but also how the data is distributed across machines and to some extent network randomness when shuffle operations are involved. Even in the simplest case, the result set will depend on the system’s CPU core count.

Parameters

nint, optional

Number of items to return. This is currently NOT supported. Use frac instead.

fracfloat, optional

Fraction of axis items to return.

replacebool, default False

Sample with or without replacement.

random_stateint, optional

Seed for the random number generator (if int).

ignore_indexbool, default False

If True, the resulting index will be labeled 0, 1, …, n - 1.

New in version 3.4.0.

Returns

Series or DataFrame

A new object of same type as caller containing the sampled items.

Examples

>>> df = ps.DataFrame({'num_legs': [2, 4, 8, 0],
...                    'num_wings': [2, 0, 0, 0],
...                    'num_specimen_seen': [10, 2, 1, 8]},
...                   index=['falcon', 'dog', 'spider', 'fish'],
...                   columns=['num_legs', 'num_wings', 'num_specimen_seen'])
>>> df  
        num_legs  num_wings  num_specimen_seen
falcon         2          2                 10
dog            4          0                  2
spider         8          0                  1
fish           0          0                  8

A random 25% sample of the DataFrame. Note that we use random_state to ensure the reproducibility of the examples.

>>> df.sample(frac=0.25, random_state=1)  
        num_legs  num_wings  num_specimen_seen
falcon         2          2                 10
fish           0          0                  8

A random 50% sample of the DataFrame, while ignoring the index.

>>> df.sample(frac=0.5, random_state=1, ignore_index=True)  
   num_legs  num_wings  num_specimen_seen
0         4          0                  2
1         8          0                  1
2         0          0                  8

Extract 25% random elements from the Series df['num_legs'] with replacement so, the same items could appear more than once.

>>> df['num_legs'].sample(frac=0.4, replace=True, random_state=1)  
falcon    2
spider    8
spider    8
Name: num_legs, dtype: int64

Specifying the exact number of items to return is not supported now.

>>> df.sample(n=5)  
Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
NotImplementedError: Function sample currently does not support specifying ...