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Working With Big Data Introduction
00:00 Working with big data. If your files are too large for saving or processing, then there are several approaches you can take to reduce the required disk space: compress your files, choose only the columns you want, omit the rows you don’t need, force the use of less precise data types, or split the data into chunks.
00:26 In this section of the course, you’ll take a look at each of these techniques in turn, starting out with the use of compression.
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