A well known function for this in Python is random.sample()
However, my dataset consist of multiple columns, and i need the ‘lat’ and ‘lng’ coordinates to be sampled. As these two are related, i cannot use the random.sample() separately to get some random lat coordinates + some non corresponding lng coordinates.
What would be the most elegant solution for this?
Perhaps first making a third column, in which i combine lat&lng
Then sample
Then unmerge?
If so, how should i do this, the fact that both lat and lng values are floats with different lengts doesn’t make it easier. Probably by adding a’-‘ in between?
>Solution :
Essentially, you’re talking about sampling an entire row which has values [lat_i, lng_i]. This leads to a very simple (but perhaps too verbose) solution:
random_row_index = random.randint(0, number_of_rows_in_dataset - 1)
random_row = dataset[randon_row_index, :]
If you have a Pandas dataframe, simply use DataFrame.sample.