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[โ€“] QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Kausta@lemm.ee 9 points 3 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.