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Discussion on: How much data do I need to have Big Data?

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Pierre Bouillon

I may be mistaking but I think that you can say you are doing 'Big Data' whenever you have to process more data than your computer can handle.

When I did some researched on it I was amused to see that, for example, a huge CSV file to treat could be considered 'Big Data' if you are working on a veeeery old computer 😄

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Luke Westby • Edited

Okay interesting, so big is relative to your ability to process it. Does that refer specifically to compute instances from cloud providers, or could it be, like, a laptop?

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Pierre Bouillon

Yes ! I found it quiet funny

And yes, from what I understand it depends on where you are performing your treatment. So, if you're using the cloud then it's relative to the servers you're using