100 hits a minute, distributed per second using Poisson distributed

gistfile1.py

In [6]: import numpy as np

In [7]: np.random.po
np.random.poisson  np.random.power    

In [7]: np.random.poisson(100 / 60.0, 60)
Out[7]: 
array([0, 2, 2, 1, 4, 3, 5, 3, 1, 0, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 0, 3, 2, 0,
       2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 0, 1, 3, 1, 2, 4,
       2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1])