More than a decade ago when data mining was relatively new (remember the commercial with fashion models talking about mining their data on the runway?), many were advocating mining all of the (mostly transactional) data and had to be educated…
To Sample Or Not To Sample… Does It Even Matter?
April 5, 2012 By 1 Comment
So the question is…when do you sample and when do you not? And does it even matter anymore in the world of big data? As I’ll lay out here, in most cases today there is no point in wasting energy worrying about it. As long as a few basic criteria are met, do whatever you prefer…
