This might help you [1]. Cheers, Till
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2514061/how-to-pick-random-small-data-samples-using-map-reduce On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:16 AM Maximilian Alber < alber.maximil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Flinksters, > > again a similar problem. I would like to choose ONE random element out of > a data set, without shuffling the whole set. Again I would like to have the > element (mathematically) randomly chosen. > > Thanks! > Cheers, > Max >