Posted on November 24, 2009, 6:14 pm, by JD Long, under
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So for the rest of this conversation big data == 2 Gigs. Done. Don’t give me any of this ‘that’s not big, THIS is big’ shit. There now, on with the cool stuff:
This week on twitter Vince Buffalo asked about loading a 2 gig comma separated file (csv) into R (OK, he asked about tab [...]
Posted on March 9, 2009, 4:37 pm, by JD Long, under
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I’ve been struggling for a while on which database to use for my working data. I used to use MS Access quite a lot. The problems with MS Access include but are not limited to:
2 GB file size limit, at least historically
Versions change with each edition of MS Office
Sort of tough to write SQL scripts
Very [...]