Random Sample of RDD in Spark

2) To get a random sample of your RDD (named data) say with 100000 rows and to get 20% values

data.sample(False,0.02,None).collect()

where data.sample takes the parameters

?data.sample
Signature: data.sample(withReplacement, fraction, seed=None)

and .collect helps in getting data

2) takeSample when I specify  by size of sample (say 100)

data.takeSample(False,100)

data.takeSample(withReplacement, num, seed=None)
Docstring:
Return a fixed-size sampled subset of this RDD.

 

 

Simple isnt it