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[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You havent seen anything until you need to put a 4.2gb gzipped csv into a pandas dataframe, which works without any issues I should note.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

I raise you thousands of gzipped files (total > 20GB) combined into one dataframe. Frankly, my work laptop did not like it all that much. But most basic operations still worked fine tho

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I really don't think that's a lot either. Nowadays we routinely process terabytes of data.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it was just a simple example. Although using just pandas (without something like dask) for loading terabytes of data at once into a single dataframe may not be the best idea, even with enough memory.

[–] whotookkarl 5 points 4 months ago

It's good to see the occult is still alive and well