On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 21:09, Gael Varoquaux > <gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:07:04PM -0500, Wes McKinney wrote: > >> In this last case for example, around 500 MB of RAM is taken up for an > >> array that should only be about 80-90MB. If you're a data scientist > >> working in Python, this is _not good_. > > > > But why, oh why, are people storing big data in CSV? > > Because everyone can read it. It's not so much "storage" as "transmission". > > Because their labmate/officemate/advisor is using Excel... Ben Root
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