Reservoir Sampling

Description

The Reservoir Sampling transform allows you to sample a fixed number of rows from an incoming data stream when the total number of incoming rows is not known in advance.

The transform uses uniform sampling; all incoming rows have an equal chance of being selected.

This transform is particularly useful when used in conjunction with the ARFF output transform in order to generate a suitable sized data set to be used by WEKA.

The reservoir sampling transform uses Algorithm R by Jeffery Vitter.

Options

Option	Description
Transform name	Name of the transform this name has to be unique in a single pipeline.
Sample size	Select how many rows to sample from an incoming stream. Setting a value of 0 will cause all rows to be sampled; setting a negative value will block all rows.
Random seed	Choose a seed for the random number generator. Repeating a pipeline with a different value for the seed will result in a different random sample being chosen.

Option

Description

Transform name

Name of the transform this name has to be unique in a single pipeline.

Sample size

Select how many rows to sample from an incoming stream. Setting a value of 0 will cause all rows to be sampled; setting a negative value will block all rows.

Random seed

Choose a seed for the random number generator. Repeating a pipeline with a different value for the seed will result in a different random sample being chosen.