Modified the takeSample method in RDD to use the ScaSRS sampling technique to improve performance. Added a private method that computes sampling rate > sample_size/total to ensure sufficient sample size with success rate >= 0.9999. Added a unit test for the private method to validate choice of sampling rate.
Author: Doris Xin <doris.s.xin@gmail.com>
Author: dorx <doris.s.xin@gmail.com>
Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>
Closes#916 from dorx/takeSample and squashes the following commits:
5b061ae [Doris Xin] merge master
444e750 [Doris Xin] edge cases
3de882b [dorx] Merge pull request #2 from mengxr/SPARK-1939
82dde31 [Xiangrui Meng] update pyspark's takeSample
48d954d [Doris Xin] remove unused imports from RDDSuite
fb1452f [Doris Xin] allowing num to be greater than count in all cases
1481b01 [Doris Xin] washing test tubes and making coffee
dc699f3 [Doris Xin] give back imports removed by accident in rdd.py
64e445b [Doris Xin] logwarnning as soon as it enters the while loop
55518ed [Doris Xin] added TODO for logging in rdd.py
eff89e2 [Doris Xin] addressed reviewer comments.
ecab508 [Doris Xin] "fixed checkstyle violation
0a9b3e3 [Doris Xin] "reviewer comment addressed"
f80f270 [Doris Xin] Merge branch 'master' into takeSample
ae3ad04 [Doris Xin] fixed edge cases to prevent overflow
065ebcd [Doris Xin] Merge branch 'master' into takeSample
9bdd36e [Doris Xin] Check sample size and move computeFraction
e3fd6a6 [Doris Xin] Merge branch 'master' into takeSample
7cab53a [Doris Xin] fixed import bug in rdd.py
ffea61a [Doris Xin] SPARK-1939: Refactor takeSample method in RDD
1441977 [Doris Xin] SPARK-1939 Refactor takeSample method in RDD to use ScaSRS
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