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How Can We Get Big Data Sets with Python? – Data Distribution

Getting large datasets with Python involves retrieving, processing, and managing significant amounts of data. Python provides various libraries and tools to handle big data effectively, including data distribution techniques. Data distribution involves splitting a large dataset into smaller parts for easier processing and analysis. This helps in parallelizing tasks and improving overall performance. Let’s explore some examples of how Python can be used to get big datasets using data distribution.

In the real world, the data sets are much bigger, but it can be difficult to gather real world data, at least at an early stage of a project. In order to create big data sets for testing, let us see how Python module NumPy can help, which comes with a number of methods to create random data sets, of any size.

Example: Let say you want to create an array containing 250 random floats between 0 and 5:

import numpy

x = numpy.random.uniform(0.0, 5.0, 250)

print(x)
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